Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes

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

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.

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

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

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.

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Space is the breath of art.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.