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.Collection: Great
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.Collection: Architecture
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.Collection: Architecture
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.Collection: Architecture
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.Collection: Brainy
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.Collection: God
The space within becomes the reality of the building.Collection: Space
Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.Collection: Government
Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.Collection: Great
Less is only more where more is no good.Collection: Good
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.Collection: Business
An idea is salvation by imagination.Collection: Imagination
The truth is more important than the facts.Collection: Truth
Space is the breath of art.Collection: Space
Mechanization best serves mediocrity.Collection: Best
Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.Collection: Respect
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.Collection: Money
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.Collection: Art
The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.Collection: Hope
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.Collection: Love
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.Collection: Work
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.Collection: Beauty
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.Collection: Politics
Television is chewing gum for the eyes.Collection: Movies
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.Collection: Home
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.Collection: Change
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.Collection: Art
Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.Collection: Strength
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.Collection: Life
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.Collection: Funny
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.Collection: Strength
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.Collection: Architecture
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.Collection: Technology
Freedom is from within.Collection: Freedom
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.
Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
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.
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
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.
The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.
All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
'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.
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.
Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.