110+ Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes On Architecture, Nature And Falling Water

Frank Lloyd Wright was an American architect, interior designer, writer, and educator. He designed more than 1,000 structures and completed 532 works. He was famous for his pioneering style, which embraced organic architecture and emphasized creating harmony between the building and its environment. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright on architecture, nature, falling water.

Top 10 Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes

1. Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
2. We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.
3. Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
4. The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.
5. I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
6. We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.
7. No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.
8. You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
9. Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived.
10. I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

Frank Lloyd Wright Image Quotes

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Mechanization best serves mediocrity. — Frank Lloyd Wright

The truth is more important than the facts. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Space is the breath of art. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes. — Frank Lloyd Wright

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright Short Quotes

• You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.
• Mechanization best serves mediocrity.
• The truth is more important than the facts.
• The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
• Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
• The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
• I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.
• Less is only more where more is no good.
• The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
• Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.

Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes About Architecture

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity. — Frank Lloyd Wright

If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth — Frank Lloyd Wright

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. — Frank Lloyd Wright

The only thing wrong with architecture is architects. — Frank Lloyd Wright

You can't make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it. — Frank Lloyd Wright

If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Architecture is for the young. If our teenagers don't get architecture - if they are not inspired, (then) we won't have the architecture that we must have if this country is going to be beautiful. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes About Nature

Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation — Frank Lloyd Wright

The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth. — Frank Lloyd Wright

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

For America today organic architecture interprets (will eventually build) this local embodiment of human freedom. This natural architecture seeks spaciousness, grace and openness; lightness and strength so completely balanced and logical that it is a new integrity. — Frank Lloyd Wright

The best friend of earth of man is the tree. — Frank Lloyd Wright

I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. — Frank Lloyd Wright

True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building, or a park. At its best it is an emphasis of structure, a realization in graceful terms of the nature of that which is ornamented — Frank Lloyd Wright

Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Architectural features of true democratic ground-freedom would rise naturally from topography, which means that buildings would all take on the nature and character of the ground on which in endless variety they would stand and be component part. — Frank Lloyd Wright

I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes About Art

Space is the breath of art. — Frank Lloyd Wright

I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Beautiful buildings are more than scientific. They are true organisms, spiritually conceived; works of art, using the best technology by inspiration rather than the idiosyncrasies of mere taste or any averaging by the committee mind. — Frank Lloyd Wright

An idea is salvation by imagination. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. The size of the project means little in art, beyond the money matter. It is the quality of the character that really counts. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master's work of art. Individuality is sacred. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Entering into the spirit of this interior, you will discover the best possible atmosphere in which to show fine paintings or listen to music. It is this atmosphere that seems to me most lacking in our art galleries, museums, music halls and theaters. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Architecture isman'sgreat sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as its source because great art isgreat life. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes About Life

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities. — Frank Lloyd Wright

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. — Frank Lloyd Wright

No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built. — Frank Lloyd Wright

I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture. — Frank Lloyd Wright

It is where life is fundamental and free that men develop the vision needed to reveal the human soul in the blossoms it puts forth. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Money shows [man] new ways to cheat life. Power becomes exterior instead of interior. In these circumstances architecture becomes too difficult, building too easy. — Frank Lloyd Wright

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes About Buildings

The outside of any building may now come inside and the inside go outside, each seems as part of the other. Continuity, plasticity, and all the new simplicity the imply have at last come home. — 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. — Frank Lloyd Wright

The space within becomes the reality of the building. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. — Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Architecture is essentially Human; it is the Human spirit manifesting itself. For when a Man builds, there, you've got him; you know exactly what, who and how that Man is. — Frank Lloyd Wright

The tall modern office building is the machine pure and simple...the engine, the motor and the battleship the works of the century. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun. — Frank Lloyd Wright

The room within is the great fact about the building. — Frank Lloyd Wright

It is a terrific thing to get a building built that has the qualities of greatness in it. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes About City

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world. — Frank Lloyd Wright

The outcome of the city will depend on the race between the automobile and the elevator, and anyone who bets on the elevator is crazy. — Frank Lloyd Wright

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy. — Frank Lloyd Wright

San Francisco is the only city I can think of that can survive all the things you people are doing to it and still look beautiful. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. — Frank Lloyd Wright

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. — Frank Lloyd Wright

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent. — Frank Lloyd Wright

I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city. — Frank Lloyd Wright

If you would see how interwoven it is in the warp and woof of civilization ... go at night-fall to the top of one of the down-town steel giants and you may see how in the image of material man, at once his glory and his menace, is this thing we call a city. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes About World

New York is the biggest mouth in the world. It appears to be prime example of the herd instinct, leading the universal urban conspiracy to beguile man from his birthright (the good ground), to hang him by his eyebrows from skyhooks above hard pavement, to crucify him, sell him, or be sold by him. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles. — Frank Lloyd Wright

The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of the world and remember, it will be a poet, not a scientist. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright Famous Quotes And Sayings

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use the word order. — Frank Lloyd Wright

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site. — Frank Lloyd Wright

The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect. — Frank Lloyd Wright

The truth is more important than the facts. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Space is the breath of art. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes. — Frank Lloyd Wright

I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking. — Frank Lloyd Wright

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable. — Frank Lloyd Wright

If capitalism is fair then unionism must be. If men and women have a right to capitalize their ideas and the resources of their country, then that implies the right of men and women to capitalize their labor. — Frank Lloyd Wright

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

A vital difference between the professional man and a man of business is that money making to the professional man should, by virtue of his assumption, be incidental; to the businessman it is primary. Money has its limitations; while it may buy quantity, there is something beyond it and that is quality. — Frank Lloyd Wright

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

As we live and as we are, Simplicity - with a capital "S" - is difficult to comprehend nowadays. We are no longer truly simple. We no longer live in simple terms or places. Life is a more complex struggle now. It is now valiant to be simple: a courageous thing to even want to be simple. It is a spiritual thing to comprehend what simplicity means. — Frank Lloyd Wright

At night... the streets become rhythmical perspectives of glowing dotted lines, reflections hung upon them in the streets as the wistaria hangs its violet racemes on its trellis. The buildings are shimmering verticality, a gossamer veil, a festive scene-prop hanging there against the black sky to dazzle, entertain, amaze. — Frank Lloyd Wright

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward. — Frank Lloyd Wright

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

The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you're an atheist, pretend how God would do it. — Frank Lloyd Wright

The measure of a man's culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more. — Frank Lloyd Wright

No stream rises higher than its source — Frank Lloyd Wright

Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall. — Frank Lloyd Wright

All fine architectural values are human vales, else not valuable. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Space. The continual becoming: invisible fountain from which all rhythms flow and to which they must pass. Beyond time or infinity — Frank Lloyd Wright

Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions. — Frank Lloyd Wright

The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Our forefathers were not only brave. I believe they were right. I believe that what they meant was that every man born had equal right to grow from scratch by way of his own power unhindered to the highest expression of himself possible to him. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances. — Frank Lloyd Wright

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Get the habit of analysis- analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. — Frank Lloyd Wright

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By playing down to the idea of the common man, dogmatic political authority exploits him... So the ideal of innate aristocracy of which hour forefathers dreamed is betrayed for votes in the name of democracy. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic. — Frank Lloyd Wright

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind. — Frank Lloyd Wright

I find that government can be a kind of gangsterism and is in Russia. And is likely to be in America if we don't take care of ourselves pretty carefully. — Frank Lloyd Wright

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. — Frank Lloyd Wright

I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty. — Frank Lloyd Wright

TV -- chewing gum for the eyes. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Humanity to me is not a mob. A mob is a degeneration of humanity. A mob is humanity going the wrong way. — Frank Lloyd Wright

I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Remy de Gourmont An idea is salvation by imagination — Frank Lloyd Wright

I do not believe in adding enrichment merely for the sake of enrichment. Unless it adds clearness to the enunciation of the theme, it is undesirable, for it is very little understood. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Doctors bury their mistakes, Architects cover them with ivy — Frank Lloyd Wright

Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Life Lessons by Frank Lloyd Wright

1. Frank Lloyd Wright taught that beauty can be found in simplicity, and that form should follow function. He also believed that architecture should be tailored to its environment, and that it should be designed to bring people closer to nature.
2. His legacy emphasizes the importance of craftsmanship and attention to detail, and that architecture should be designed to enhance the lives of its inhabitants.
3. He also believed in the importance of creating harmony between the built and natural environment, and that architecture should be designed with the future in mind.