Quotes By Frank Lloyd Wright

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Space is the breath of art.

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 longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

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

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.

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.

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

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

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.

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

Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.

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

An idea is salvation by imagination.

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

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

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.