Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Age, Fool, Before

Space is the breath of art.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Art, Space, Breath

The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.
Frank Lloyd Wright

True, Him, Sense

'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Simple, Old, Whole

An idea is salvation by imagination.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Idea, Salvation

Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Time, Mind, Become

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Happen, Makes, Happens

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Human, Else, Values

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Hope, Moving, Tomorrow

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Business, House, Build

Freedom is from within.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Freedom, Within

Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Great, Liberty, Republic

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

Sense, Simplicity, Comfort

Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Side, Land, Angeles

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 hand with beauty.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Beauty, May, Hand

Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Dead, Wall, Nail

Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Why, Buildings, Shake

I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Humility, Strange, Coming

Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Life, Strength, Through

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Best, Mediocrity, Serves

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Money, Great, Power

Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Great, Respect, True

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Mind, Heart, Chief

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 nature has used in its domain.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Work, Nature, God

Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Strength, Character, Light

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Architect

Born: June 8, 1867

Died: April 9, 1959

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