We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they… — 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
On this simple unit-system [of building blocks] ruled on the low table-top all these forms were combined by the child into imaginative… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
At night... the streets become rhythmical perspectives of glowing dotted lines, reflections hung upon them in the streets as the wistaria hangs… — 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
The outside of any building may now come inside and the inside go outside, each seems as part of the other. Continuity,… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Architectural features of true democratic ground-freedom would rise naturally from topography, which means that buildings would all take on the nature and… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Beautiful buildings are more than scientific. They are true organisms, spiritually conceived; works of art, using the best technology by inspiration rather… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building,… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly, but take every building to pieces, and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
It is a terrific thing to get a building built that has the qualities of greatness in it. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building. — 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