Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Politics, Freedom, Government

The truth is more important than the facts.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Truth, Important, Facts

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Nature, God, Spell

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Architecture, Age, Time

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Life, Change, Humility

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Funny, Eyes, Tv

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Life, Give, Luxuries

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Learning, Love, Nature

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Mistakes, Doctor, Plant

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Nature, Great, God

Less is only more where more is no good.
Frank Lloyd Wright

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Nothing, Sense, Common

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Spiritual, Union, Function

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Architecture, Useful, Tools

A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Great, Heart, Brain

Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Great, Beautiful, Left

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

Art, Mother, Soul

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Life, Beautiful, Live

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Art, Philosophy, Sake

I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Life, Black, Almost

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Technology, Finger, Keeps

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Work, Art, True

I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Someone, Try, Wish

Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Children, Sun, Earth

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Good, Takes, Students

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Architect

Born: June 8, 1867

Died: April 9, 1959

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