50 Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes From The American Architect
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Frank Lloyd Wright is an American architect, educator, designer, and outspoken writer who outshines his life by his profession.
Frank Lloyd Wright is famous because of his exemplary creation, 'Organic Architecture'. This innovative architect maintained a harmony between mother nature and his buildings.
Frank Lloyd Wright had an overarching belief in Organic Architecture. So all his creations were exquisitely excellent with the proper blend of surroundings into the landscape that is also called Prairie Style.
He had an innovative yet comfortable style with beautiful structures, and Frank Lloyd Wight has completed over 1000 designs and buildings. This prominent and prolific architect has inspired many with his words and works. So, here are some Frank Lloyd Wright quotes to build our lives wisely and aesthetically.
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Famous Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes On Architecture
Here are Frank Lloyd Wright quotes about architecture that are insightful.
1. "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, 'The Future of Architecture'.
2. "Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity."
- Frank Lloyd Wright.
3. "A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines."
- Frank Lloyd Wright.
4. "Tip the world over on its side, and everything loose will land in Los Angeles."
- Frank Lloyd Wright.
5. "The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own, we have no soul of our civilization."
- Frank Lloyd Wright.
6. "All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable."
- Frank Lloyd Wright, 'Recapitulation - The Living City'.
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. 'An Autobiography'.
8. "Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed."
- Frank Lloyd Wright.
9. "Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun."
- Frank Lloyd Wright.
10. "An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking bar at the site."
- Frank Lloyd Wright.
11. "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, 'Truth Against the World'.
12. "Mechanization best serves mediocrity."
- Frank Lloyd Wright.
13. "The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes."
- Frank Lloyd Wright.
14. "Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it."
- Frank Lloyd Wright.
15. "Space is the breath of art."
- Frank Lloyd Wright.
16. "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, 'Master Builder'.
God And Mother Nature Quotes By Frank Lloyd Wright
Here are some famous architecture quotes about God and nature by Frank Lloyd Wright to inspire people to keep a balance between nature, humanity, and architecture.
17. "I believe in God; only I spell it Nature."
- Frank Lloyd Wright, 'Truth Against the World: Frank Lloyd Wright Speaks For An Organic Architecture'.
18. "The thing always happens that you really believe in, and the belief in a thing makes it happen."
- Frank Lloyd Wright.
19. "An idea is salvation by imagination."
- Frank Lloyd Wright.
20. "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.
21. "Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work."
- Frank Lloyd Wright.
22. "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.
23. "Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you."
- Frank Lloyd Wright.
Inspirational Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes About Humanity And Life
These Frank Lloyd Wright quotes are an authentic encapsulation of wisdom and inspiration.
24. "I feel coming on a strange disease - humility."
- Frank Lloyd Wright.
25. "Less is more only when more is too much."
- Frank Lloyd Wright.
26. "The truth is more important than the facts."
- Frank Lloyd Wright.
27. "Give me the luxuries of life, and I will willingly do without the necessities."
- Frank Lloyd Wright.
28. "There is nothing more uncommon than common sense."
- Frank Lloyd Wright.
29. "Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union."
- Frank Lloyd Wright.
30. "If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger."
- Frank Lloyd Wright.
31. "Freedom is from within."
- Frank Lloyd Wright.
32. "Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change."
- Frank Lloyd Wright.
33. "'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.
34. "Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic."
- Frank Lloyd Wright.
35. "Imitation is always insult--not flattery."
- Frank Lloyd Wright, 'A Testament'.
36. "Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old."
- Frank Lloyd Wright.
37. "Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions."
- Frank Lloyd Wright.
38. "Get the habit of analysis - analysis will, in time, enable synthesis to become your habit of mind."
- Frank Lloyd Wright, 'Two Lectures on Architecture'.
39. "A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working."
- Frank Lloyd Wright.
Motivational Quotes From Frank Lloyd Wright
Find your inspiration in the day, as these quotes about architecture and life values are really encouraging.
40. "Television is chewing gum for the eyes."
- Frank Lloyd Wright.
41. "I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen."
- Frank Lloyd Wright.
42. "The measure of a man's culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more."
- Frank Lloyd Wright.
43. "I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters."
- Frank Lloyd Wright.
44. "Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now."
- Frank Lloyd Wright.
45. "Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art."
- Frank Lloyd Wright, 'In the Cause Of Architecture'.
46. "A building is not just a place to be but a way to be."
- Frank Lloyd Wright.
47. "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, 'The Natural House'.
48. "The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind."
- Frank Lloyd Wright.
49. "The present is the ever-moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope."
- Frank Lloyd Wright, 'The Living City'.
50. "Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral."
- Frank Lloyd Wright.
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