The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

Quote by Frank Lloyd Wright

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Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture....

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture....

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking...

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking...

Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.

I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.

Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll Le Corbusier go write four books about...

Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll Le Corbusier go write four books about...

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a...

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a...

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose...

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose...

Space is the breath of art.

Space is the breath of art.

Think simple as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of...

Think simple as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of...

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of...

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of...

Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct...

Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct...

The truth is more important than the facts.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great...

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great...

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies;...

Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies;...

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the...

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the...

An idea is salvation by imagination.

An idea is salvation by imagination.

Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light,...

Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light,...

Space is the breath of art.

Space is the breath of art.

Less is only more where more is no good.

Less is only more where more is no good.