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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
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— 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
