Quotes from 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.

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

The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas.

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

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

When I see architecture that moves me, I hear music in my inner ear

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

A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.

Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use.

Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation

Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.

All the more I study Nature do I revere God, because Nature is all the body of God we will ever know.

I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.

Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.

Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust.

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.

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

Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

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

I think Miss Monroe as architecture is extremely good architecture, and she's a very natural actress, and a very good one.

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.

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

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.

Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.