Frank Lloyd Wright famous quotes

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Inspirational #Motivational #Success

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#God #Nature #Atheist

No stream rises higher than its source
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Source #Higher #Streams

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

#Mother #Art #Civilization

You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Motivational #Education #Order

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Inspirational #Life #Stay Strong

An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Work #Men #Thinking

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Inspirational #Funny #Beautiful

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.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Freedom #Mean #Men

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Funny #Witty #Humorous

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

#Simplicity #Design #Comfort

You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Design #Hammers #Use

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.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Sweet #Mistake #Home

Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Opposites #Democracy #Communism

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.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Artist #Cities #Looks

The space within becomes the reality of the building.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Reality #Space #Interesting

The belief in a thing makes it happen.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Belief

Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Body

I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Believe #Artist #Wish

Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Life #Nature #Children

I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Hate #Intelligent #I Hate

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

New York is the biggest mouth in the world. It appears to be prime example of the herd instinct, leading the universal urban conspiracy to beguile man from his birthright (the good ground), to hang him by his eyebrows from skyhooks above hard pavement, to crucify him, sell him, or be sold by him.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Men #World #Urban

We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Home #Snail #Exquisite

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

#Humorous #Land #Profound

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Inspirational #Inspiring #Art

Freedom is from within.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Freedom #4th Of July #Thrive

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Business #Artist #House

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.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Artist #Years #Architect

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

#Mind #Analysis #Synthesis

Space is the breath of art.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Art #Space #Architecture

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

#Witty #Badass #Mistake

Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Yesterday #Records #World

True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building, or a park. At its best it is an emphasis of structure, a realization in graceful terms of the nature of that which is ornamented
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Ornaments #Realization #Matter

Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Sarcastic #Money #Sarcasm

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Inspiration #Luxury #Giving

Love is the virtue of the Heart, Sincerity is the virtue of the Mind, Decision is the virtue of the Will, Courage is the virtue of the Spirit.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Heart #Love Is #Decision

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Spiritual #Design #Misunderstood

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Government #Architecture #Results

So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal and the teaching so much needed if we are to see the whole of life, and to now serve the whole of life, holding no traditions essential to the great TRADITION. Nor cherishing any preconceived form fixing upon us either past, present or future, but-instead-exalting the simple laws of common sense-or of super-sense if you prefer-determining form by way of the nature of materials...
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Teaching #Past #Simple

Youth is not an age thing. It's a quality. Once you've had it, you never lose it.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Age #Quality #Youth

A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Inspirational #Doe #Best Work

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Thinking #Common Sense #Common

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use the word order.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Men #Bad Ass #Reality

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

#Life #Humility #History

Architecture is for the young. If our teenagers don't get architecture - if they are not inspired, (then) we won't have the architecture that we must have if this country is going to be beautiful.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Beautiful #Country #Art

I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Inspiration

You can't make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Art #Light #Doors

Imitation is always insult--not flattery.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Flattery #Insult #Imitation

The truth is more important than the facts.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Wise #Witty #Powerful

Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master's work of art. Individuality is sacred.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Art #Soul #Individuality

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.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Character #Artist #Light

The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Men #Garden #Tree

I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#People #Design #Building

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

#Inspirational #Time #Lying

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

#Boards #Bars #Tools

Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see...
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Body

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

#Artist #Blue #Interesting

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

#Art #Philosophy #Sake

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Artist #Cynical #Plums

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

#Technology #Men #Buttons

An idea is salvation by imagination.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Art #Ideas #Imagination

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Badass #Bad Ass #Architecture

When we come to understand architecture as the essential nature of all harmonious structure we will see that it is the architecture of music that inspired Bach and Beethoven, the architecture of painting that is inspiring Picasso as it inspired Velasquez, that it is the architecture of life itself that is the inspiration of the great poets and philosophers.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Inspiration #Essentials #Philosopher

'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.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Artist #Simple #Thinking

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.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Artist #Hands #Design

Less is only more where more is no good.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Sweet #Artist #Interesting

I do not believe in adding enrichment merely for the sake of enrichment. Unless it adds clearness to the enunciation of the theme, it is undesirable, for it is very little understood.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Believe #Add #Littles

A building is not just a place to be but a way to be.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Inspiration #Way #Architecture

It's easier to make changes with a pencil than a wrecking bar.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Bars #Making Changes #Easier

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Hate #Heart #Love Life

To know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how, ah, that is to have been educated in knowledge of simplicity.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Simplicity #Educated

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.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Heart #Brain #Way

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Life #Beauty #Beautiful

If capitalism is fair then unionism must be. If men and women have a right to capitalize their ideas and the resources of their country, then that implies the right of men and women to capitalize their labor.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Country #Men #Ideas

Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Inspiration

If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Beautiful #Art #Discovery

Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Opportunity #Dining #Artistic

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

#Birthday #Meaningful #Great Day

Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Birthday #Happiness #Confidence

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

#Beautiful #Artist #Thinking

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Time #Quality #Matter

Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Wall #Artist #Vaccines

Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Artist #Liberty #Foundation

Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been sorry.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Sorry #Humility #Careers

The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

#Beautiful #Hurt #Landscape