“If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.”
Technology
“The truth is more important than the facts.”
TruthAll Quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright
“Freedom is from within.”
Freedom“Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.”
Art“A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.”
Freedom“The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.”
Hope“New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.”
Money“Less is only more where more is no good.”
Good“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“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”
Learning“Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.”
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“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“The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.”
Architecture“TV is chewing gum for the eyes.”
Funny“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“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“Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.”
Business“Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.”
Strength“Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.”
Age