“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.”
Great
“An idea is salvation by imagination.”
ImaginationAll Quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright
“If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.”
Technology“A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.”
Age“The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.”
Architecture“Less is only more where more is no good.”
Good“Freedom is from within.”
Freedom“Mechanization best serves mediocrity.”
Best“The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.”
Hope“An idea is salvation by imagination.”
Imagination“Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.”
Art“An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.”
Architecture“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.”
God“Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.”
Change“Space is the breath of art.”
Art“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.”
Home“The truth is more important than the facts.”
Truth“Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.”
Great“Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.”
Business“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.”
God“Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.”
Art