Frank Lloyd Wright quotes - page 2

Frank Lloyd Wright was an American architect, interior designer, and writer, widely recognized as one of the most influential architects of the 20th century. His work pioneered the philosophy of organic architecture, harmonizing buildings with their natural surroundings. He designed iconic structures like Fallingwater and the Guggenheim Museum, leaving a lasting legacy in modern architecture. Here are 152 of his quotes:

Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.

Frank Lloyd Wright

I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

New York is the biggest mouth in the world. It appears to be prime example of the herd instinct, leading the universal urban conspiracy to beguile man from his birthright (the good ground), to hang him by his eyebrows from skyhooks above hard pavement, to crucify him, sell him, or be sold by him.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

Frank Lloyd Wright

New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

If you're going to have centralization, why not have it!

Frank Lloyd Wright

I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.

Frank Lloyd Wright

If it sells, it's art.

Frank Lloyd Wright

I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Nature's own inexhaustible fertility is manifest exuberance, and never less than the elemental poetry of all her structure.

Frank Lloyd Wright

I'm no teacher. Never wanted to teach and don't believe in teaching an art. Science yes, business of course..but an art cannot be taught. You can only inculcate it, you can be an exemplar, you can create an atmosphere in which it can grow. Well I suppose I, being an exemplar, could be called a teacher, in spite of myself. So go ahead, call me a teacher.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

Space is the breath of art.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Less is only more where more is no good.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The space within becomes the reality of the building.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

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