Quotes By Frank Lloyd Wright

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

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.