Quotes from Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Remy de Gourmont An idea is salvation by imagination.

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it.

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth

Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.

An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

It is where life is fundamental and free that men develop the vision needed to reveal the human soul in the blossoms it puts forth.

A man with a machine may murder or enslave millions, whereas it used to take at least thousands to murder millions. And the man behind the machine has nothing on his conscience.

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.

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

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

Simplicity and Repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

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.

I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.

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

Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?

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

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

No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.