Frank Lloyd Wright quotes

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

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

The space within becomes the reality of the building.

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

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Space is the breath of art.

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

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

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.

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 believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

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.

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.

Space is the breath of art.

Less is only more where more is no good.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

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

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

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

Freedom is from within.

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

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.

Space is the breath of art.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

The truth is more important than the facts.

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

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

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.

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

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