Quotes By Frank Lloyd Wright

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

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.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

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

The space within becomes the reality of the building.

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.

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

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

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

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

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

Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.

I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.