Quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright

About Frank Lloyd Wright:

Frank Lloyd Wright was an American architect, interior designer, writer, and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures, 532 of which were completed. Wright believed in designing structures that were in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture. This philosophy was best exemplified by Fallingwater (1935), which has been called "the best all-time work of American architecture". Wright was a leader of the Prairie School movement of architecture and developed the concept of the Usonian home, his unique vision for urban planning in the United States. Frank Lloyd Wright was an architect for about 70 years.
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An idea is salvation by imagination.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

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.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

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

Less is only more where more is no good.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

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

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

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

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

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

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

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

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The space within becomes the reality of the building.

Frank Lloyd Wright

'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Author Bio

  • NameFrank Lloyd Wright
  • DescriptionAmerican architect (1867-1959)
  • AliasesFrank Lincoln Wright; F. L. Wright
  • BornJune 8, 1867
  • DiedApril 9, 1959
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionArchitect
  • WorksEmil Bach House; Pettit Memorial Chapel; Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church; A. D. German Warehouse
  • AwardsRoyal Gold Medal; Frank P. Brown Medal