Frank Lloyd Wright

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“Freedom lies within.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Each material has its own message.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Prison house for the soul

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Imitate nothing except principle.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Freedom is from within.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Space is the breath of art.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“Life is truth...”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

No house should ever be on any hill... It should be of the hill.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

We boast the highest standard of living when it's only the biggest.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Is there anything more anti-American than McCarthyism?

— Frank Lloyd Wright

If the paintings are too large, cut them in half!

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The truth is more important than the facts.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

It is where life is fundamental and free that men develop the vision needed to reveal the human soul in the blossoms…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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

— 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

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

I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist's hand even were that magic hand in…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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

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

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

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The baby boomers are out there, they've had a lot of good years of earnings, they've inherited wealth. They are buying trophy…

— 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

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

We have no longer an outside and an inside as two separate things. Now the outside may come inside and the inside…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“Man in his upended street must know he is becoming a mere numerical item of convenience; on the way to being a…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

New York is the biggest mouth in the world. It appears to be prime example of the herd instinct, leading the universal…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“...the multitudinous substitutes for indigenous culture cannot grow. Having no roots, they can only age and decay. Studious, sincere youth retires, defeated.…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“Every idea that is a true idea has a form, and is capable of many forms. The variety of forms of which…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“How many understand that Nature is the essencial character of whatever is. It's something you'll find by looking not at, but in,…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The longer I lived, the more beautiful life became - despite my personal tragedies, the fire, despite my third wife and her…

— Frank Lloyd Wright