Top 160 Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

102. “Television is bubble-gum for the mind.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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

— Frank Lloyd Wright

104. “You can’t make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

105. “The outcome of the city will depend on the race between the automobile and the elevator, and anyone who bets on the elevator is crazy.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

106. “If capitalism is fair then unionism must be. If men and women have a right to capitalize their ideas and the resources of their country, then that implies the right of men and women to capitalize their labor.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

107. “No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

108. “Less is more only when more is too much.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

109. “The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

110. “What I like best about San Francisco is San Francisco.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

111. “If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

112. “Imitation is always insult – not flattery.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

113. “Taste is a matter of ignorance. If you know what you are tasting, you don’t have to taste.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

114. “The sense of space within the reality of any building is a new concept wherever architecture is concerned. But it is essential ancient principle just the same and is not only necessary now but implied by the ideal of democracy itself.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

115. “I think Ms. Monroe’s architecture is extremely good architecture.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

116. “So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal...”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

117. “Architecture is essentially Human; it is the Human spirit manifesting itself. For when a Man builds, there, you’ve got him; you know exactly what, who and how that Man is.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

118. “Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title. – Virginia Woolf, from Jacob’s Room Television is chewing gum for the eyes.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

119. “From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn’t fastened down slides into Southern California.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

120. “An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

121. “The space within becomes the reality of the building.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

122. “Humanity to me is not a mob. A mob is a degeneration of humanity. A mob is humanity going the wrong way.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

123. “Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

124. “I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

125. “Building becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful, to put concordance, sympathy with nature, and all that into it. Then you have architecture.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

126. “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

127. “Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

128. “I do not believe in adding enrichment merely for the sake of enrichment. Unless it adds clearness to the enunciation of the theme, it is undesirable, for it is very little understood.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

129. “If the paintings are too large, cut them in half!”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

130. “The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

131. “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

132. “We do not learn so much by our successes as we learn by failures – our own and others! Especially if we see the failures properly corrected.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

133. “Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

134. “Wherever human life is concerned, the unnatural stricture of excessive verticality cannot stand against more natural horizontality.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

135. “Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

136. “The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears – as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

137. “Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

138. “If you tilt the whole country sideways, Los Angeles is the place where everything loose will fall.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

139. “The measure of a man’s culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

140. “The dynamic ideal we call democracy, gradually growing up in the human heart for two-thousand five hundred years, at least, has now every opportunity to found the natural democratic state in these United States of America by way of natural economic order and a natural, or organic, architecture.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

141. “Consider everything in the nature of a hanging fixture a weakness, and naked radiators an abomination.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

142. “I know we can’t have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

143. “The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of the world and remember, it will be a poet, not a scientist.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

144. “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

145. “Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

146. “The best friend of earth of man is the tree.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

147. “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

148. “What is needed most in architecture today is the very thing that is most needed in life- Integrity. Just as it is in a human being, so integrity is the deepest quality in a building... if we succeed, we will have done a great service to our moral nature- the psyche- of our democratic society... Stand up for integrity in your building and you stand for integrity not only in the life of those who did the building but socially a reciprocal relationship is inevitable.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

149. “I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

150. “Entering into the spirit of this interior, you will discover the best possible atmosphere in which to show fine paintings or listen to music. It is this atmosphere that seems to me most lacking in our art galleries, museums, music halls and theaters.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright