“No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.”

“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.”

“My grandfather Frank Lloyd Wright wore a red sash on his wedding night. That is glamour!”

“Freedom is from within.”

“The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.”

“Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.”

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

“Mechanization best serves mediocrity.”

“A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.”

“Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.”

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