Quotes By Frank Lloyd Wright

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

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

The space within becomes the reality of the building.

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

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

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

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.

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

I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.

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

Less is only more where more is no good.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

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.

The truth is more important than the facts.

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

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

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

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.

Freedom is from within.

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

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