Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes


The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. Frank Lloyd Wright architecture 188
Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. Frank Lloyd Wright Analysis 147
Less is only more where more is no good. Frank Lloyd Wright Where 125
I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up. Frank Lloyd Wright Intelligence 108
An idea is salvation by imagination. Frank Lloyd Wright Imagination 108
I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture. Frank Lloyd Wright Almost 104
Space is the breath of art. Frank Lloyd Wright Art 90
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent. Frank Lloyd Wright Power 89
Freedom is from within. Frank Lloyd Wright Freedom 88
I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it. Frank Lloyd Wright Believe 85
Mechanization best serves mediocrity. Frank Lloyd Wright Best 83
The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope. Frank Lloyd Wright Hope 83
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense. Frank Lloyd Wright Common 83
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities. Frank Lloyd Wright Life 80
A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. Frank Lloyd Wright Uncategorized 79
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art. Frank Lloyd Wright art 76
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. Frank Lloyd Wright Nature 75
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. Frank Lloyd Wright City 75
Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world. Frank Lloyd Wright Beautiful 75
I feel coming on a strange disease - humility. Frank Lloyd Wright Coming 75
An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site. Frank Lloyd Wright Architecture 74
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. Frank Lloyd Wright Technology 74
All fine architectural values are human vales, else not valuable. Frank Lloyd Wright Architecture 72
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. Frank Lloyd Wright Politics 70
Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic. Frank Lloyd Wright Foundations 67
The truth is more important than the facts. Frank Lloyd Wright Truth 67
TV -- chewing gum for the eyes. Frank Lloyd Wright Television 67
Space is the breath of art. Frank Lloyd Wright art 67
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 Age 67
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. Frank Lloyd Wright Architecture 66
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed. Frank Lloyd Wright Art 64
The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it. Frank Lloyd Wright Civilization 63
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 Home 62
Im all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Lets start with typewriters. Frank Lloyd Wright Writers 62
Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun. Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings 62
Television is chewing gum for the eyes. Frank Lloyd Wright Chewing 61
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 Nature 60
Mechanization best serves mediocrity. Frank Lloyd Wright best 59
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes. Frank Lloyd Wright Harvard 58
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity. Frank Lloyd Wright Architecture 58
The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life. Frank Lloyd Wright Beauty 55
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances. Frank Lloyd Wright Youth 55
TV is chewing gum for the eyes. Frank Lloyd Wright Funny 54
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union. Frank Lloyd Wright Follows 53
"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. Frank Lloyd Wright First 52
A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward. Frank Lloyd Wright Age 52
Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles. Frank Lloyd Wright Angeles 51
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 Anything 49
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. Frank Lloyd Wright Nature 48
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. Frank Lloyd Wright Poetry 47

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