Frank Lloyd Wright

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
– Frank Lloyd Wright

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and a devotion to the things you want to
see happen.
– Frank Lloyd Wright

A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.
– 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

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
– Frank Lloyd Wright

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
– Frank Lloyd Wright

A physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines.
– Frank Lloyd Wright

Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
– 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

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
– Frank Lloyd Wright

The thing always happens that you really believe in – and the belief in a thing makes it
happen.
– Frank Lloyd Wright

Less is more only when more is too much.
– Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
– Frank Lloyd Wright

I think Ms Monroe’s architecture is extremely good architecture.
– Frank Lloyd Wright

Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is
what they do to themselves that makes them ugly.
– Frank Lloyd Wright

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
– Frank Lloyd Wright

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
– 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

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

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

Give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.
– Frank Lloyd Wright

An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking bar at the
site.
– Frank Lloyd Wright

I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.
– Frank Lloyd Wright

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
– Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day’s work.
I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
– Frank Lloyd Wright

Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
– Frank Lloyd Wright

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

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

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
– 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

If it sells, it’s art.
– Frank Lloyd Wright

If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it.
– Frank Lloyd Wright

Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.
– Frank Lloyd Wright

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed – a race for rent.
– Frank Lloyd Wright

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

An idea is salvation by imagination.
– Frank Lloyd Wright

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
– Frank Lloyd Wright

Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
– Frank Lloyd Wright

The truth is more important than the facts.
– Frank Lloyd Wright