Frank Lloyd Wright

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Freedom is from within.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The space within becomes the reality of the building.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

An idea is salvation by imagination

— Frank Lloyd Wright

I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

I'm no teacher. Never wanted to teach and don't believe in teaching an art. Science yes, business of course..but an art cannot be taught. You can only inculcate it, you can be an exemplar, you can create an atmosphere in which it can grow. Well I suppose I, being an exemplar, could be called a teacher, in spite of myself. So go ahead, call me a teacher.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

A free America, democratic in the sense that our forefathers intended it to be, means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call 'democracy' is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Every great architect is — necessarily — a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Clear out 800,000 people and preserve it as a museum piece.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

If you’re going to have centralization, why not have it!

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of the world and remember, it will be a poet, not a scientist.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

I believe in God, only I spell it "Nature".

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Here I am, Philip, am I indoors or am I out? Do I take my hat off or keep it on?

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature and it has been said often 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. If we wish to know the truth concerning anything, we'll find it in the nature of that thing.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears — as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

New York is the biggest mouth in the world. It appears to be prime example of the herd instinct, leading the universal urban conspiracy to beguile man from his birthright (the good ground), to hang him by his eyebrows from skyhooks above hard pavement, to crucify him, sell him, or be sold by him.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“The-Shadow-of-the-Wall–Primitive Instincts Still Alive”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist’s hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

An idea is salvation by imagination.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The truth is more important than the facts.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Less is only more where more is no good.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Freedom is from within.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Space is the breath of art.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Less is only more where more is no good.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The truth is more important than the facts.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

An idea is salvation by imagination.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

— Frank Lloyd Wright