Frank Lloyd Wright quotes

“An idea is salvation by imagination.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“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

“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.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“Freedom is from within.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“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

“Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.”

— 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

“Mechanization best serves mediocrity.”

— 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

“The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“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

“No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“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.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“Television is chewing gum for the eyes.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“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

“The space within becomes the reality of the building.”

— 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

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

— Frank Lloyd Wright