“New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.”
Money
“Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.”
ChangeAll Quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright
“Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.”
Business“The truth is more important than the facts.”
Truth“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“TV is chewing gum for the eyes.”
Funny“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“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.”
God“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“Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.”
Strength“An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.”
Architecture“An idea is salvation by imagination.”
Imagination“Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.”
Respect“Mechanization best serves mediocrity.”
Best“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“Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.”
Architecture“Less is only more where more is no good.”
Good“Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.”
Art“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“Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.”
Life