“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
“An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.”
ArchitectureAll Quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright
“TV is chewing gum for the eyes.”
Funny“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“Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.”
Age“Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.”
Art“A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.”
Age“Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.”
Respect“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“An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.”
Architecture“Space is the breath of art.”
Art“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“Freedom is from within.”
Freedom“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“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.”
God“Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.”
Great“Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.”
Life“Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.”
Business“If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.”
Technology“New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.”
Money