Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes

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.

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

Form follows function-that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

An idea is salvation by imagination.

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

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.

The truth is more important than the facts.

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

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.

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

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

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.

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

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

I wouldn`t mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking

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.

Space is the breath of art.

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

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

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

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

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

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.

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