Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes

• Space is the breath of art.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

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

  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

• 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

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

  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

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

  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

• Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

  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

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

  Frank Lloyd Wright

• Less is only more where more is no good.

  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

• I feel coming on a strange disease – humility.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

• I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

• Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

• 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

• Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

• Freedom is from within.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright (69)

Birth:	8th June, 1867
Death:	9th April, 1959
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Architect

About

Frank Lloyd Wright was born in Richland Center, Wisconsin, USA. He was an American architect, interior designer, writer, and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures, 532 of which were completed. He believed in designing structures that were in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture. His work includes original and innovative examples of many building types, including offices, churches, schools, skyscrapers, hotels, and museums. He wrote 20 books and many articles and was a popular lecturer in the United States and in Europe. His Selected edifices include: Larkin Administration Building, Imperial Hotel Toyko, Fallingwater, and Guggenheim Museum.

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