Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
Born: June 8, 1867
Frank Lloyd Wright, the visionary architect who revolutionized the built environment, believed that true harmony begins within. His philosophy, rooted in organic architecture, taught that structures should not dominate nature but dance with it, fostering a profound sense of peace and connection. Wright’s genius lay in understanding that space itself is a sanctuary for the soul. His quotes, often meditative reflections on life, balance, and simplicity, resonate deeply because they remind us that tranquility is not a place to find, but a way of being. He invites us to build our inner worlds with the same mindful intention.
Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes (65)
"Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you."
— Frank Lloyd Wright"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."
— Frank Lloyd Wright"The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization."
— Frank Lloyd Wright"There is nothing more uncommon than common sense."
— Frank Lloyd Wright"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."
— Frank Lloyd Wright"Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change."
— Frank Lloyd Wright"Space is the breath of art."
— Frank Lloyd Wright"Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union."
— Frank Lloyd Wright"TV is chewing gum for the eyes."
— Frank Lloyd Wright"Less is only more where more is no good."
— Frank Lloyd Wright"Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age."
— Frank Lloyd Wright"Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art."
— Frank Lloyd Wright"If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger."
— Frank Lloyd Wright"Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles."
— Frank Lloyd Wright"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."
— Frank Lloyd Wright"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."
— Frank Lloyd Wright"Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed."
— Frank Lloyd Wright"Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun."
— Frank Lloyd Wright"The truth is more important than the facts."
— Frank Lloyd Wright"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen."
— Frank Lloyd Wright"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines."
— Frank Lloyd Wright"The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes."
— Frank Lloyd Wright"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."
— Frank Lloyd Wright"An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site."
— Frank Lloyd Wright"New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent."
— Frank Lloyd Wright"Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world."
— Frank Lloyd Wright"Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind."
— Frank Lloyd Wright"Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral."
— Frank Lloyd Wright"The space within becomes the reality of the building."
— Frank Lloyd Wright"The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope."
— Frank Lloyd Wright