Frank Llyod Wright was a renowned American architect and an author. Born in 1867, Wright had a career that spanned over 70 years in which he designed more than 1000 buildings. Due to this incredible feat of his, he is also regarded as the ‘Father of Architecture’.
Being an immensely intellectual individual, he uttered countless captivating quotes in his lifetime. His quotes provide us a glimpse into the ingenuity and creativity of his mind. Below is a list of 50 best quotes by Frank Llyod Wright that will surely fascinate you:
1. “The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own, we have no soul of our civilization.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
2. “An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking bar at the site.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
3. “All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
4. “Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
5. “A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
6. “Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
7. “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 with each the happier for the other.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
8. “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
9. “Tip the world over on its side, and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
10. “Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
11. “Well, now that he’s finished one building, he’ll go write four books about it.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
12. “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
13. “Space is the breath of art.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
14. “Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day’s work.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
15. “Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
16. “An idea is salvation by imagination.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
17. “Form follows function – that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
18. “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
19. “Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
20. “Imitation is always insult–not flattery.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
21. “I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
22. “I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
23. “Less is more only when more is too much.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
24. “Give me the luxuries of life, and I will willingly do without the necessities.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
25. “The best thing to do is go as far out as you can get… what you regard as ‘too far’–and when others follow, as they will, move on.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
26. “Television is chewing gum for the eyes.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
27. “Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
28.”The present is the ever-moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
29. “Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
30. “Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
31. “Mechanization best serves mediocrity.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
32. “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
33. “I believe in God; only I spell it Nature.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
34. “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
35. “The thing always happens that you really believe in, and the belief in a thing makes it happen.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
36. “Freedom is from within.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
37. “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
38. “Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
39. “Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
40. “If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
41. “A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
42. “Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
43. “We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
44. “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
45. “Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
46. “Life is truth…” -Frank Lloyd Wright
47. “If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
48. “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
49. “The measure of its nobility and its continuity is its depth of feeling and its sincerity. And if it has that quality, it stands ‘Toward a New architecture’.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
50. ‘‘The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.” -Frank Lloyd Wright