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The space within becomes the reality of the building. — Frank Lloyd Wright

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. — Frank Lloyd Wright

A building is not just a place to be but a way to be. — Frank Lloyd Wright

The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas. — Frank Lloyd Wright

I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city. — Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity. — Frank Lloyd Wright

More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building. — Frank Lloyd Wright

It is a terrific thing to get a building built that has the qualities of greatness in it. — Frank Lloyd Wright

I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking. — Frank Lloyd Wright

The longer that I live the more beautiful life becomes. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union. — Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Television is chewing gum for the eyes. — Frank Lloyd Wright

The tall modern office building is the machine pure and simple ... the engine, the motor and the battleship the works of the century. — Frank Lloyd Wright

The only thing wrong with architecture is architects. — Frank Lloyd Wright

From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn't fastened down slides into Southern California. — Frank Lloyd Wright

A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart. — Frank Lloyd Wright

The truth is more important than the facts. — Frank Lloyd Wright

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen. — Frank Lloyd Wright

A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme. — Frank Lloyd Wright

All I learned from Eliel Saarinen was how to make out an expense account — Frank Lloyd Wright

It is where life is fundamental and free that men develop the vision needed to reveal the human soul in the blossoms it puts forth. — Frank Lloyd Wright

I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty. — Frank Lloyd Wright

The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you're an atheist, pretend how God would do it. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity. — Frank Lloyd Wright

We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional. — Frank Lloyd Wright

We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us. — Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Less is only more where more is no good. — Frank Lloyd Wright

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Self fulfilling prophecies do exist in real life — Frank Lloyd Wright

Mechanization best serves mediocrity. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it. — Frank Lloyd Wright

San Francisco is the only city I can think of that can survive all the things you people are doing to it and still look beautiful. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art. — Frank Lloyd Wright

I know we can't have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord. — Frank Lloyd Wright

The best friend of earth of man is the tree. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes. — Frank Lloyd Wright

The room within is the great fact about the building. — Frank Lloyd Wright

It's easier to make changes with a pencil than a wrecking bar. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master's work of art. Individuality is sacred. — Frank Lloyd Wright

I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up. — Frank Lloyd Wright

An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles. — Frank Lloyd Wright

I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. — Frank Lloyd Wright

The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Falling Waters, Frank Lloyd Wright's — Martha Milot

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature." Frank Lloyd Wright — Andrea Perron

If you tilt the whole country sideways, Los Angeles is the place where everything loose will fall. — Frank Lloyd Wright

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. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation — Frank Lloyd Wright

You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site. — Frank Lloyd Wright

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. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Freedom is from within. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. — Frank Lloyd Wright

TV is chewing gum for the eyes. — Frank Lloyd Wright

You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Love of an idea is the love of God. — Frank Lloyd Wright

When I see architecture that moves me, I hear music in my inner ear — Frank Lloyd Wright

What I like best about San Francisco is San Francisco. — Frank Lloyd Wright

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed ... a race for rent. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Prison house for the soul — Frank Lloyd Wright

Consider everything in the nature of a hanging fixture a weakness, and naked radiators an abomination. — Frank Lloyd Wright

They say this was built by Frank Lloyd Wright's evil twin," said Wednesday. "Frank Lloyd Wrong. — Neil Gaiman

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use. — Frank Lloyd Wright

The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism ... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual. — Frank Lloyd Wright

An idea is salvation by imagination — Frank Lloyd Wright

If the paintings are too large, cut them in half! — Frank Lloyd Wright

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed. — Frank Lloyd Wright

You can't make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly. — Frank Lloyd Wright

A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there. — Frank Lloyd Wright

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. — Frank Lloyd Wright

A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. — Frank Lloyd Wright

I'll bridge these hills with graceful arches — Frank Lloyd Wright

I think Ms. Monroe's architecture is extremely good architecture. — Frank Lloyd Wright

No house should ever be on any hill ... It should be of the hill. — Frank Lloyd Wright

All the more I study Nature do I revere God, because Nature is all the body of God we will ever know. — Frank Lloyd Wright

I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it. — Frank Lloyd Wright

I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church. — Frank Lloyd Wright

The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth. — Frank Lloyd Wright

They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California. — Frank Lloyd Wright

The outcome of the city will depend on the race between the automobile and the elevator, and anyone who bets on the elevator is crazy. — Frank Lloyd Wright

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves. — Frank Lloyd Wright

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. — Frank Lloyd Wright

And I loved Frank Lloyd Wright. I think he was the greatest man I have ever met in my life. — Anthony Quinn

We boast the highest standard of living when it's only the biggest. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Television is bubble-gum for the mind — Frank Lloyd Wright

'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

Youth is not an age thing. It's a quality. Once you've had it, you never lose it. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Love is the greatest virtue of the heart. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Taste is a matter of ignorance. If you know what you are tasting, you don't have to taste. — Frank Lloyd Wright