Quotes from Frank Lloyd Wright

Space. The continual becoming: invisible fountain from which all rhythms flow and to which they must pass. Beyond time or infinity

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

Self fulfilling prophecies do exist in real life

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

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

Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn't fastened down slides into Southern California.

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

The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.

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.

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.

Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.

Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.

Boston: Clear out eight hundred thousand people and preserve it as a museum piece. New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.

The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.

The best friend of earth of man is the tree.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.

Love of an idea is the love of God.

The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.

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

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

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

The heart is the first feature of working minds.