No stream rises higher than its source

Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation

Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.

The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas.

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

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.

I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it.