Quotes from 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.

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

The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

No house should ever be on any hill or on anything. It should be of the hill, belonging to it, so hill and house could live together each the happier for the other.

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.

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

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

Less is only more where more is no good.

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

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

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

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

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

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

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.

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines.

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

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.

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.

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

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.

Freedom is from within.