Quotes from Frank Lloyd Wright

We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.

The outside of any building may now come inside and the inside go outside, each seems as part of the other. Continuity, plasticity, and all the new simplicity the imply have at last come home.

Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been sorry.

The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.

An idea is salvation by imagination

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.

You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.

To know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how, ah, that is to have been educated in knowledge of simplicity.

Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived.

If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

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.

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

The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.

Less is only more where more is no good.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

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

Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.

Architecture isman'sgreat sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as its source because great art isgreat life.

'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.

Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.

I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

An idea is salvation by imagination