Quotes By Frank Lloyd Wright

Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.

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

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.

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

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

Less is only more where more is no good.

The truth is more important than the facts.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

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

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.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.

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

Freedom is from within.

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

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

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

Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.

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

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.

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.

Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.

"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.

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

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.

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.

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

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