Frank Lloyd Wright quotes

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

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.

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

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

Freedom is from within.

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.

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

Less is only more where more is no good.

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.

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.

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

Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

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.

Space is the breath of art.

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

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.

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.

The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

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.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

"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.

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.

Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll Le Corbusier go write four books about it.

Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.