3 December 2020 Frank Lloyd Wright Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
3 December 2020 Frank Lloyd Wright The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
3 December 2020 Frank Lloyd Wright New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed… a race for rent.
3 December 2020 Frank Lloyd Wright The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Frank Lloyd Wright Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Frank Lloyd Wright Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Frank Lloyd Wright Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.
3 December 2020 Frank Lloyd Wright An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Frank Lloyd Wright Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Frank Lloyd Wright Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
