Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
You can't make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it.
Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
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.
Architecture is for the young. If our teenagers don't get architecture - if they are not inspired, (then) we won't have the architecture that we must have if this country is going to be beautiful.
The measure of a man's culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.
The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you're an atheist, pretend how God would do it.
Space. The continual becoming: invisible fountain from which all rhythms flow and to which they must pass. Beyond time or infinity
Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.
Architecture is essentially Human; it is the Human spirit manifesting itself. For when a Man builds, there, you've got him; you know exactly what, who and how that Man is.
To know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how, ah, that is to have been educated in knowledge of simplicity.
The best thing to do is go as far out as you can get... what you regard as 'too far' - and when others follow, as they will, move on
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.
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.
A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.
The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of the world and remember, it will be a poet, not a scientist.
The tall modern office building is the machine pure and simple...the engine, the motor and the battleship the works of the century.
Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
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.
Youth is not an age thing. It's a quality. Once you've had it, you never lose it.
Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly.
I find that government can be a kind of gangsterism and is in Russia. And is likely to be in America if we don't take care of ourselves pretty carefully.
