Quotes By Frank Lloyd Wright

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

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.

Space is the breath of art.

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.

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

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

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

An idea is salvation by imagination.

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

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

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.

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.

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

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

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

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.

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.

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

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