Quotes By Frank Lloyd Wright

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

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.

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.

Space is the breath of art.

Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

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

The space within becomes the reality of the building.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

An idea is salvation by imagination.

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

The truth is more important than the facts.

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

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Freedom is from within.

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

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.

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.