Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes And Sayings

Frank Lloyd Wright was an American architect, interior designer, writer, and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures, 532 of which were completed. Wright believed in designing structures that were in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture. Wright was a leader of the Prairie School movement of architecture and developed the concept of the Usonian home, his unique vision for urban planning in the United States. His creative period spanned more than 70 years. Wright was recognized in 1991 by the American Institute of Architects as “the greatest American architect of all time”.

Art For Art's Sake Is A Philosophy Of The Well-fed.

I Believe In God, Only I Spell It Nature.

Every Great Architect Is - Necessarily - A Great Poet. He Must Be A Great Original Interpreter Of His Time, His Day, His Age.

An Idea Is Salvation By Imagination.

The Longer I Live, The More Beautiful Life Becomes.

Study Nature, Love Nature, Stay Close To Nature. It Will Never Fail You.

Organic Architecture Seeks Superior Sense Of Use And A Finer Sense Of Comfort, Expressed In Organic Simplicity.

Buildings, Too, Are Children Of Earth And Sun.

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.

Simplicity And Repose Are The Qualities That Measure The True Value Of Any Work Of Art.

Regard It As Just As Desirable To Build A Chicken House As To Build A Cathedral.

Form Follows Function - That Has Been Misunderstood. Form And Function Should Be One, Joined In A Spiritual Union.

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.

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.

Eventually, I Think Chicago Will Be The Most Beautiful Great City Left In The World.

All Fine Architectural Values Are Human Values, Else Not Valuable.

A Doctor Can Bury His Mistakes But An Architect Can Only Advise His Clients To Plant Vines.

A Doctor Can Bury His Mistakes But An Architect Can Only Advise His Clients To Plant Vines.

The Truth Is More Important Than The Facts.

Space Is The Breath Of Art.

Respect The Masterpiece. It Is True Reverence To Man. There Is No Quality So Great, None So Much Needed Now.

I Believe Totally In A Capitalist System, I Only Wish That Someone Would Try It.

Television Is Chewing Gum For The Eyes.

Early In Life I Had To Choose Between Honest Arrogance And Hypocritical Humility. I Chose The Former And Have Seen No Reason To Change.

The Thing Always Happens That You Really Believe In; And The Belief In A Thing Makes It Happen.

Freedom Is From Within.

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.

Tv Is Chewing Gum For The Eyes.

Harvard Takes Perfectly Good Plums As Students, And Turns Them Into Prunes.

Toleration And Liberty Are The Foundations Of A Great Republic.

The Present Is The Ever Moving Shadow That Divides Yesterday From Tomorrow. In That Lies Hope.

If It Keeps Up, Man Will Atrophy All His Limbs But The Push-button Finger.

An Architect's Most Useful Tools Are An Eraser At The Drafting Board, And A Wrecking Bar At The Site.

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.

The Lincoln Memorial Is Related To The Toga And The Civilization That Wore It.

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.

There Is Nothing More Uncommon Than Common Sense.

Why, I Just Shake The Buildings Out Of My Sleeves.

The Space Within Becomes The Reality Of The Building.

'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.

Get The Habit Of Analysis - Analysis Will In Time Enable Synthesis To Become Your Habit Of Mind.

Get The Habit Of Analysis - Analysis Will In Time Enable Synthesis To Become Your Habit Of Mind.

The Mother Art Is Architecture. Without An Architecture Of Our Own We Have No Soul Of Our Own Civilization.

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.

Youth Is A Quality, Not A Matter Of Circumstances.

Tip The World Over On Its Side And Everything Loose Will Land In Los Angeles.

The Heart Is The Chief Feature Of A Functioning Mind.

Life Always Rides In Strength To Victory, Not Through Internationalism... But Only Through The Direct Responsibility Of The Individual.

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.

I Feel Coming On A Strange Disease - Humility.