Quotes from Frank Lloyd Wright

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.

You can't make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it.

If it sells, it's art.

Architecture is for the young. If our teenagers don't get architecture - if they are not inspired, (then) we won't have the architecture that we must have if this country is going to be beautiful.

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

Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly.

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

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

Love is the virtue of the Heart, Sincerity is the virtue of the Mind, Decision is the virtue of the Will, Courage is the virtue of the Spirit.

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.

You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.

Space is the breath of art.

I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it.

The space within becomes the reality of the building.

The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.

The tall modern office building is the machine pure and simple...the engine, the motor and the battleship the works of the century.

The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction site.

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.

Freedom is from within.

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

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

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.