Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes

Less is only more where more is no good... view

By: Frank Lloyd Wright

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

By: Frank Lloyd Wright

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

By: 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... view

By: Frank Lloyd Wright

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

By: Frank Lloyd Wright

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

By: Frank Lloyd Wright

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

By: 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... view

By: Frank Lloyd Wright

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances... view

By: 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... view

By: Frank Lloyd Wright

Mechanization best serves mediocrity... view

By: Frank Lloyd Wright

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

By: Frank Lloyd Wright

I feel coming on a strange disease - humility... view

By: Frank Lloyd Wright

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

By: 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... view

By: Frank Lloyd Wright

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

By: 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... view

By: Frank Lloyd Wright

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

By: Frank Lloyd Wright

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

By: Frank Lloyd Wright

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

By: Frank Lloyd Wright

Space is the breath of art... view

By: Frank Lloyd Wright

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

By: Frank Lloyd Wright

Television is chewing gum for the eyes... view

By: 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... view

By: Frank Lloyd Wright

The architect should strive continually to simplify.. view

By: Frank Lloyd Wright

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind... view

By: Frank Lloyd Wright

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

By: Frank Lloyd Wright

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes... view

By: Frank Lloyd Wright

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

By: Frank Lloyd Wright

The truth is more important than the facts... view

By: Frank Lloyd Wright

TV is chewing gum for the eyes... view

By: Frank Lloyd Wright

Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic... view

By: 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... view

By: Frank Lloyd Wright

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

By: 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.".. view

By: Frank Lloyd Wright

Freedom is from within... view

By: 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... view

By: Frank Lloyd Wright

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

By: 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... view

By: Frank Lloyd Wright

The thing always happens that you really believe in.. view

By: Frank Lloyd Wright

The space within becomes the reality of the building... view

By: Frank Lloyd Wright

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

By: Frank Lloyd Wright