Explore Quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.

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.

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

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

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

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

Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.

An idea is salvation by imagination.

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

Simplicity and Repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.

Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

'Think in simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole to its parts in simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

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

Space is the breath of art.

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.

Freedom is from within.