89 Total Quotes
Frank+Lloyd Wright Quotes
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
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.
Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
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. (1939)
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.
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen
Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.Sincerity is the greatest virtue of the mind.Determination is the greatest virtue of the will.Courage is the greatest virtue of the spirit.
If you tilt the whole country sideways, Los Angeles is the place where everything loose will fall.
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.
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.
We should have a system of economics that is structure, that is organic tools. We do not have it. We are all hanging by our eyebrows from skyhooks economically, just as we are architecturally
The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas