"The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built."
"Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now."
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Source: Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (1992). “Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1930-1932”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns
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