Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes

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

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No house should ever be on any hill or on anything. It should be of the hill, belonging to it, so hill and house could live together each the happier for the other.

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

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

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

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Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

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

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

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

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We should learn from the snail it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.

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The truth is more important than the facts.

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

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

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TV -- chewing gum for the eyes.

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The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

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

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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.

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Clear out 800,000 people and preserve it as a museum piece.

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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

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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.

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'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.

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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.

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We realize people need to live somewhere but we don't want to put ourselves in a position where we have 28 houses per acre.

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

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