Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes (85 Quotes)

We should have a system of economics that is structure, that is organic tools. We do not have it. We are all hanging by our eyebrows from skyhooks economically, just as we are architecturally

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.

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

If you tilt the whole country sideways, Los Angeles is the place where everything loose will fall.

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

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

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

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

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.

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

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

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

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.

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.

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

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

It's a question of disappearing into the background. We would suffer the loss of dilution.

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.

Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.

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

Space is the breath of art.

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

The first weekend in March is usually the end of our busy season. But this year, with the way things are going, it may keep up a little longer.

I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.

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

We realize people need to live somewhere but we don't want to put ourselves in a position where we have 28 houses per acre.

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

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

Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.

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

Clear out 800,000 people and preserve it as a museum piece.

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