If you foolishly ignore beauty, you'll soon find yourself without it. Your life will be improverished. But if you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life. New York Times Magazine, October 4, 1953

More from Frank Lloyd Wright

• An expert is a man who has stopped thinking - he knows!
• An idea is salvation by imagination.
• Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived.
• Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.
• Freedom is from within.
• Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.