Explore Quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright

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

The best friend of earth of man is the tree.

If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet.

To know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how, ah, that is to have been educated in knowledge of simplicity.

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

I could list of dozens things my fiancee does that annoys me and I'm sure he could list off hundreds of things about me but the fact is that even through all that we love each other. We love each other in spite of our flaws and despite all the things we do that should make us hate each other we still continue to fall deeper in love. Sometimes we want to hate each other but for two people who are truly in love it simply isn't possible. Not even a little but, not even at all.

I think Miss Monroe as architecture is extremely good architecture, and she's a very natural actress, and a very good one.

The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction site.

The outcome of the city will depend on the race between the automobile and the elevator, and anyone who bets on the elevator is crazy.

You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.

If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it.

A building is not just a place to be but a way to be.

I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it.

So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal and the teaching so much needed if we are to see the whole of life, and to now serve the whole of life, holding no traditions essential to the great TRADITION. Nor cherishing any preconceived form fixing upon us either past, present or future, but-instead-exalting the simple laws of common sense-or of super-sense if you prefer-determining form by way of the nature of materials.

The longer I lived, the more beautiful life became - despite my personal tragedies, the fire, despite my third wife and her dreadful taste. My dear Olgivanna, she insisted on replacing the lovely canvas and wooden trusses at Taliesin West with steel supports and pink frosted glass. Well, I was too old to care by then. What I decided early on was this: 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.

Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.

If capitalism is fair then unionism must be. If men and women have a right to capitalize their ideas and the resources of their country, then that implies the right of men and women to capitalize their labor.

A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.

Space. The continual becoming: invisible fountain from which all rhythms flow and to which they must pass. Beyond time or infinity