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 Quote

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 Quote

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

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

An idea is salvation by imagination.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Quote

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 Quote

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

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 Quote

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

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 Quote

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

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

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

I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.
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Less is only more where more is no good.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Quote

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

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Quote

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

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 Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

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

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

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

Space is the breath of art.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Quote

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

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

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

The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Quote

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Quote

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Quote

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

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

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

"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 Quote
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.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Quote

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

Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll Le Corbusier go write four books about it.
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Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Quote