“Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. 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, architect of Falling Water, who would have celebrated his 145th birthday today

via A Living Architecture : Frank Lloyd Wright and Taliesin Architects (2000) by John Rattenbury