Quotes By Frank Lloyd Wright

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 truth is more important than the facts.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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 longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

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

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.