Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes

I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.

"I don't know whether you are a saint or a fool" said my lawyer. I replied "Is there a difference?"

Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet.

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

Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master's work of art. Individuality is sacred.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

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

Architecture is the frame of human existence. We must dedicate this existence more to beauty. For if poetic principle has deserted us, how long are we going to last?

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

Humanity to me is not a mob. A mob is a degeneration of humanity. A mob is humanity going the wrong way.

Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

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.

Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm.

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

Imitate nothing except principle.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Remy de Gourmont An idea is salvation by imagination

Doctors bury their mistakes, Architects cover them with ivy

I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.

I do not believe in adding enrichment merely for the sake of enrichment. Unless it adds clearness to the enunciation of the theme, it is undesirable, for it is very little understood.

Architecture isman'sgreat sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as its source because great art isgreat life.

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.

Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been sorry.

When I see architecture that moves me, I hear music in my inner ear

Imitation is always insult--not flattery.

I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

Less is more only when more is too much.

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

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.

I think Miss Monroe as architecture is extremely good architecture, and she's a very natural actress, and a very good one.

What I like best about San Francisco is San Francisco.

I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.

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

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

Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge

Television is bubble-gum for the mind.

Love of an idea is the love of God.

Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.

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.

Boston: Clear out eight hundred thousand people and preserve it as a museum piece. New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.

The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas.

New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.

We boast the highest standard of living when it's only the biggest.

A man with a machine may murder or enslave millions, whereas it used to take at least thousands to murder millions. And the man behind the machine has nothing on his conscience.

Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title. - Virginia Woolf, from Jacob's Room Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

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

Money shows [man] new ways to cheat life. Power becomes exterior instead of interior. In these circumstances architecture becomes too difficult, building too easy.

It is a terrific thing to get a building built that has the qualities of greatness in it.

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.