Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Early in life I had to choose between arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.
No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. 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.
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.
Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been sorry.
Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
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.
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.
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.
The thing always happens that you really believe in and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
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.
I know the price of success: dedication hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
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.
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.
Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
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.
The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
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.
Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Remy de Gourmont An idea is salvation by imagination.
