Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
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I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.
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Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
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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.
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If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
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The truth is more important than the facts.
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Mechanization best serves mediocrity.
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Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
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The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
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Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.
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Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
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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.
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I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.
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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.
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I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city.
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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.
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New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
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Here I am, Philip, am I indoors or am I out? Do I take my hat off or keep it on?
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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.
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Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
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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.
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Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
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Less is only more where more is no good.