Frank Lloyd Wright Artist Quotations

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

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.

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.

Less is only more where more is no good.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.

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

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

'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.

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

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

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

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

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