“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
“Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.”
LifeAll Quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright
“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“Mechanization best serves mediocrity.”
Best“An idea is salvation by imagination.”
Imagination“Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.”
Business“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“Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.”
Age“The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.”
Hope“The truth is more important than the facts.”
Truth“Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.”
Architecture“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.”
God“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“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“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“The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.”
Architecture“Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.”
Life“Space is the breath of art.”
Art“Less is only more where more is no good.”
Good“Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.”
Strength