Quotes from Frank Lloyd Wright

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

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

Business is like riding a bicycle. Either you keep moving or you fall down.

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

Television: chewing gum for the eyes.

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

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

TV -- chewing gum for the eyes.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

The measure of a man's culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.

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.

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.

The best thing to do is go as far out as you can get... what you regard as 'too far'--and when others follow, as they will, move on.

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

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

To me, young has no meaning. It's something you can do nothing about, nothing at all. But youth is a quality. And if you have it, you never lose it.

The longer that I live the more beautiful life becomes.

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

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines — so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

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

Space is the breath of art.

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

there is no true understanding of any art without some knowledge of its philosophy. Only then does its meaning come clear.

Philip Johnson is a highbrow. A highbrow is a man educated beyond his capacity. His house is a box of glass — not shelter. The meaning of the word shelter includes privacy.