Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes

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

"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."

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

"There is nothing more uncommon than common sense."

"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."

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

"Space is the breath of art."

"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."

"Less is only more where more is no good."

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

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

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

"Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles."

"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."

"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."

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

"Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun."

"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."

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

"The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes."

"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."

"An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site."

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

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

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

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

"The space within becomes the reality of the building."

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