Architecture Quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright

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

— 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

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

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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

— Frank Lloyd Wright

A building is not just a place to be but a way to be.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

When I see architecture that moves me, I hear music in my inner ear

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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

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

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

Architecture is the frame of human existence. We must dedicate this existence more to beauty. For if poetic principle has deserted us,…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“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

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

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

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The dynamic ideal we call democracy, gradually growing up in the human heart for two-thousand five hundred years, at least, has now…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

When we come to understand architecture as the essential nature of all harmonious structure we will see that it is the architecture…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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

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

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

Building becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful,…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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

The sense of space within the reality of any building is a new concept wherever architecture is concerned. But it is essential…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal and the teaching so much…

— 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

The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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

— Frank Lloyd Wright

If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

I think Ms. Monroe's architecture is extremely good architecture.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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

— Frank Lloyd Wright

So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal...

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

I think Miss Monroe as architecture is extremely good architecture, and she's a very natural actress, and a very good one.

— Frank Lloyd Wright