The Fountainhead (film)

"Henry Cameron: I told them that the form of a building must follow its function."

"I play the stock market of the spirit and I sell short."

"Robert Douglas - Ellsworth M. Toohey"

"Artistic value is achieved collectively by each man subordinating himself to the standards of the majority."

"Gail Wynand: [to Roark, regarding the Wynand Building] Build it as a monument to that spirit which is yours - and could have been mine."

"Patricia Neal — Dominique Francon"

"A building has integrity, just as a man and just as seldom! It must be true to its own idea, have its own form, and serve its own purpose!"

"I dont build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build!"

"[closing statements in his self-defense in the trial against him] Thousands of years ago the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burned at the stake he had taught his brothers to light. But he left them a gift they had not conceived of, and he lifted darkness off the earth. Through out the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision. The great creators, the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors, stood alone against the men of their time. Every new thought was opposed. Every new invention was denounced. But the men of unborrowed vision went ahead. They fought, they suffered, and they paid—but they won."

"Before you can do things for people, you must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the people! Your own work, not any possible object of your charity. Ill be glad if men who need it find a better method of living in the house I built, but thats not the motive of my work, nor my reason, nor my reward! My reward, my purpose, my life, is the work itself - my work done my way! Nothing else matters to me!"

"Dominique Francon: [to Roark] I wish I had never seen your building. Its the things that we admire or want that enslave us. Im not easy to bring into submission."

"Peter Keating: You cant hope to survive unless you learn how to compromise. Now, watch me! In just a few short years Ill shoot to the top of the architectural profession because Im going to give the public what it wants."