on modesty

"Not the greatest architect that has ever lived. The greatest architect that ever will live."
- Frank Lloyd Wright

shining brow

"The most important building of the last 150 years."

"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

Fallingwater, Pennsylvania

An earlier reference to Fallingwater here.

how to be a man

Satellite image of Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater, designed in 1935.

"Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson [1803-1882]; recited at the funeral of Frank Lloyd Wright [1867-1959].

An earlier reference to Emerson on this blog here.