Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

34 quotes

As an American architect, Frank Lloyd Wright earned a lasting place in the canon of memorable quotations. Whether reflecting on Architecture or Nature, Frank Lloyd Wright brought uncommon clarity to every subject. Explore 50 quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright on subjects including Architecture, Nature, Great, Art, and God — each one a window into a distinctive way of seeing the world. One quote that captures their voice: "TV is chewing gum for the eyes."

“The truth is more important than the facts.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Truth

All Quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright

“If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Technology

“Freedom is from within.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Freedom

“Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Freedom

“The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Hope

“New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Money

“Less is only more where more is no good.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

God

“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Learning

“Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Strength

“The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Architecture

“TV is chewing gum for the eyes.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Beauty

“An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Architecture

“Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Business

“Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Strength

“Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Age