A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
When I see architecture that moves me, I hear music in my inner ear — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
“The measure of its nobility and its continuity is its depth of feeling and its sincerity. And if it has that quality,… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
For America today organic architecture interprets (will eventually build) this local embodiment of human freedom. This natural architecture seeks spaciousness, grace and… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal... — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
A civilization is only a way of life. A culture is the way of making that way of life beautiful. So culture… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Money shows [man] new ways to cheat life. Power becomes exterior instead of interior. In these circumstances architecture becomes too difficult, building… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day,… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
We've been fighting from the beginning for organic architecture. That is, architecture where the whole is to the part as the part… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Architecture is essentially Human; it is the Human spirit manifesting itself. For when a Man builds, there, you've got him; you know… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Architecture isman'sgreat sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Architecture is for the young. If our teenagers don't get architecture - if they are not inspired, (then) we won't have the… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn't fastened down slides into Southern California. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
“Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.” — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
“How many understand that Nature is the essencial character of whatever is. It's something you'll find by looking not at, but in, always in.… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
The cultural influences in our country are like the floo floo bird. I am referring to the peculiar and especial bird who always flew… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
“give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.” — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image