Words matter. These are the best Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Space is the breath of art.
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn’t afterward.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.
The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
The truth is more important than the facts.
All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
I feel coming on a strange disease – humility.
The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed… a race for rent.
God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day’s work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
Every great architect is – necessarily – a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
Form follows function – that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
Well, now that he’s finished one building, he’ll go write four books about it.
An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
Less is only more where more is no good.
Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders’ spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.
I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
