One war only breeds another.

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.

You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet.

The longer I lived, the more beautiful life became - despite my personal tragedies, the fire, despite my third wife and her dreadful taste. My dear Olgivanna, she insisted on replacing the lovely canvas and wooden trusses at Taliesin West with steel supports and pink frosted glass. Well, I was too old to care by then. What I decided early on was this: If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

The best thing to do is go as far out as you can get... what you regard as 'too far' - and when others follow, as they will, move on

So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal.