Quotes from Frank Lloyd Wright

A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

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.

As we live and as we are, Simplicity - with a capital S - is difficult to comprehend nowadays. We are no longer truly simple. We no longer live in simple terms or places. Life is a more complex struggle now. It is now valiant to be simple: a courageous thing to even want to be simple. It is a spiritual thing to comprehend what simplicity means.

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

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

The truth is more important than the facts.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

Youth is not an age thing. It's a quality. Once you've had it, you never lose it.

Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

Less is more only when more is too much.

Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.

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

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

Imitation is always insult--not flattery.

Freedom lies within.

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

give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.

Building becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful, to put concordance, sympathy with nature, and all that into it. Then you have architecture.

1. An honest ego in a healthy body 2. An eye to see nature 3. A heart to feel nature 4. Courage to follow nature 5. A sense of proportion (humor) 6. Appreciation of work as idea and idea as work 7. Fertility of imagination 8. Capacity for faith and rebellion 9. Disregard for commonplace (inorganic) elegance 10. Instinctive cooperation

Wherever human life is concerned, the unnatural stricture of excessive verticality cannot stand against more natural horizontality.

I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.