Frank Lloyd Wright

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

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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

— Frank Lloyd Wright

I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

It looked a lot worse than it was. Al is going to be released. He has vision and it's going to be…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. The size of the project means…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

To me, young has no meaning. It's something you can do nothing about, nothing at all. But youth is a quality. And…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Greed in human nature may now come near to enslaving all humanity by means of the Machine - so fast and far…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The outcome of the city will depend on the race between the automobile and the elevator, and anyone who bets on the…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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

— Frank Lloyd Wright

I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

I'm against war. Always have been, always will be. And everything connected with it, is anathema to me. I have never considered…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

I know we can't have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Space. The continual becoming: invisible fountain from which all rhythms flow and to which they must pass. Beyond time or infinity

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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

— Frank Lloyd Wright

A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

San Francisco is the only city I can think of that can survive all the things you people are doing to it…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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

— Frank Lloyd Wright

I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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

— Frank Lloyd Wright

When anyone becomes an authority, that is the end of him as far as development is concerned.

— Frank Lloyd Wright