Quotes By Frank Lloyd Wright

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

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

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.

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

Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.

I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.

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

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.

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

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

An idea is salvation by imagination.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Freedom is from within.

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.

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

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.

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

Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.

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.

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.

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

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.

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