“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.”
Architecture
“Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.”
ArtAll Quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright
“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.”
Imagination“God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.”
God“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.”
God“TV is chewing gum for the eyes.”
Funny“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”
Learning“Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.”
Great“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.”
Architecture“A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.”
Age“New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.”
Money“If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.”
Technology“Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.”
Art“Mechanization best serves mediocrity.”
Best“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“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.”
Beauty“An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.”
Architecture“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“Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.”
Age