Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of ...

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

A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.

An idea is salvation by imagination

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

Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.

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

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I...

I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.

I know the price of success: dedication hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you wan...

If it sells, it's art.

Less is only more where more is no good.

Space is the breath of art.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Remy de Gourmont An idea is salvation ...

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

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

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

Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly but take every building to pieces and challenge ever...

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

How is he made? Oftentimes bitter, sometimes sweet, seldom even wide-awake, architectural criticism ...

Our forefathers were not only brave. I believe they were right. I believe that what they meant was t...

Philosophy is to the mind of the architect as eyesight to his steps. The Term 'genius' when applied ...

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

An idea is salvation by imagination.

Early in life I had to choose between arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance ...

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former...

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

The architect should strive continually to simplify the ensemble of the rooms should then be careful...

The truth is more important than the facts.

Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direc...

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

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I fol...

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

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.

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

Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by li...

The space within becomes the reality of the building.

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

Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any accou...

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arr...

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

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of hi...

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it h...

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I d...

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

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

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

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriter...

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Hill and house should l...

Freedom is from within.