Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
- Architecture isman'sgreat sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as its source because…
- I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city.
- If you're going to have centralization, why not have it!
- All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
- An idea is salvation by imagination.
- The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
- Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
- Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.
- Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
- I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.
- Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.
- Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
- Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
- The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in…
- Mechanization best serves mediocrity.
- New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
- The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
- Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which…
- The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.
- The space within becomes the reality of the building.