Every great architect is — necessarily — a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age. - Frank Lloyd Wright

For this, if for no other reason, degeneration of creative ability in America has had ample support, and what nobility our society might still have is in danger of being submerged in overwhelming tides of rising conformity.

This drift toward quantity instead of quality is largely distortion. Conformity is always too convenient? Quality means individuality, is therefore difficult. But unless we go deeper now, quantity at expense to quality will be our national tragedy—the rise of mediocrity into high places.

As melody is in music ornament is in architecture revelation of the poetic-principle, with character and significance.