“If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.”
Technology
“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”
LearningAll Quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright
“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 present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.”
Hope“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“TV is chewing gum for the eyes.”
Funny“An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.”
Architecture“Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.”
Architecture“Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.”
Strength“Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.”
Art“Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.”
Business“Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.”
Age“Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.”
Great“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“Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.”
Strength“Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.”
Respect“A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.”
Age“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“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“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“New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.”
Money