“Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.”
Art
“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.”
StrengthAll Quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright
“Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.”
Architecture“Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.”
Life“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“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“New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.”
Money“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 present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.”
Hope“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.”
God“Mechanization best serves mediocrity.”
Best“The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.”
Architecture“Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.”
Great“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”
Learning“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“Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.”
Art“If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.”
Technology“Freedom is from within.”
Freedom“Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.”
Business“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“A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.”
Age