Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
To me, young has no meaning. It's something you can do nothing about, nothing at all. But youth is a quality. And if you have it, you never lose it.
We do not learn so much by our successes as we learn by failures - our own and others! Especially if we see the failures properly corrected.
From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn't fastened down slides into Southern California.
They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.
If you tilt the whole country sideways, Los Angeles is the place where everything loose will fall.
I voted for Stevenson as opposed to Eisenhower because I thought he would make a good president, but against my conscience because I thought that he was too good for the job.
When anyone becomes an authority, that is the end of him as far as development is concerned.
So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal.
I'm against war. Always have been, always will be. And everything connected with it, is anathema to me. I have never considered it necessary.
Wherever human life is concerned, the unnatural stricture of excessive verticality cannot stand against more natural horizontality.
Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?
Taste is a matter of ignorance. If you know what you are tasting, you don't have to taste.
It looked a lot worse than it was. Al is going to be released. He has vision and it's going to be day-by-day prognosis now. But it's much, much better than we initially anticipated.
The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction site.
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.
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.
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Remy de Gourmont An idea is salvation by imagination.
I know the price of success: dedication hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
The thing always happens that you really believe in and the belief in a thing makes it 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.
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.
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.
