Quotes of the Morning: The Wright Stuff

"The doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines."
-Frank Lloyd Wright

"No house should ever be on any hill or on anything. It should be of the hill, belonging to it, so hill and house could live together each the happier for the other."
-Frank Lloyd Wright

"An idea is salvation by imagination."
-Frank Lloyd Wright

"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."
-Frank Lloyd Wright

"The thing you really believe in always happens . . . and the belief in a thing makes it happen."
-Frank Lloyd Wright

"Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change."
-Frank Lloyd Wright

"Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall."
-Frank Lloyd Wright

"The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. 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."
-Frank Lloyd Wright