Top 160 Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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2. “I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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3. “I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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4. “The truth is more important than the facts.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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5. “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

6. “Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

7. “The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

8. “You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

9. “You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

10. “Freedom is from within.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

11. “Love is the virtue of the Heart, Sincerity is the virtue of the Mind, Decision is the virtue of the Will, Courage is the virtue of the Spirit.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

12. “The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

13. “When I see architecture that moves me, I hear music in my inner ear.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

14. “Space is the breath of art.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

15. “An idea is salvation by imagination.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

16. “Form follows function – that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

17. “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

18. “There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

19. “Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

20. “Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master’s work of art. Individuality is sacred.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

21. “Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

22. “More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

23. “A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

24. “No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

25. “The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

26. “The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

27. “If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

28. “Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

29. “A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

30. “Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

31. “The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you’re an atheist, pretend how God would do it.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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32. “I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day’s work.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

33. “An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

34. “The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

35. “Doctors bury their mistakes, Architects cover them with ivy.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

36. “We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

37. “Less is only more where more is no good.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

38. “Love of an idea is the love of God.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

39. “Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. The size of the project means little in art, beyond the money matter. It is the quality of the character that really counts.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

40. “I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

41. “We’ve been fighting from the beginning for organic architecture. That is, architecture where the whole is to the part as the part is to the whole, and where the nature of materials, the nature of the purpose, the nature of the entire performance becomes a necessity-architecture of democracy.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

42. “Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

43. “I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

44. “Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

45. “Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

46. “The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

47. “The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

48. “San Francisco is the only city I can think of that can survive all the things you people are doing to it and still look beautiful.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

49. “Architecture is the frame of human existence. We must dedicate this existence more to beauty. For if poetic principle has deserted us, how long are we going to last?”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

50. “All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright