Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
Frank Lloyd Wright was born on the 8th of June, 1867 in Richland Center, Wisconsin, United States. He was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator. Frank Lloyd Wright designed more than 1,000 structures over a creative period of 70 years.
Wright was the pioneer of what came to be called the Prairie School movement of architecture. Frank Lloyd Wright wrote 20 books and many articles and was a popular lecturer in the United States and in Europe. He died April 9, 1959 in Cardiovascular – Dignity Health St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center – Phoenix, Phoenix, Arizona, United States.
In this article, you will find a collection of famous Frank Lloyd quotes and sayings.
41 Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes About Life, Architecture & Nature
“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.” ― Frank Lloyd Wright Quote
“A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.” ― Frank Lloyd Wright Quote
“Early in my career…I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility… I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I’ve never been sorry.” ― Frank Lloyd Wright Quote
“There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.” ― Frank Lloyd Wright Quote
“Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.” ― Frank Lloyd Wright Quote
“Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.” ― Frank Lloyd Wright Quote
“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 Quote
“Philosophy is to the mind of the architect as eyesight to his steps. The Term ‘genius’ when applied to him simply means a man who understands what others only know about. A poet, artist or architect, necessarily ‘understands’ in this sense and is likely, if not careful, to have the term ‘genius’ applied to him; in which case he will no longer be thought human, trustworthy or companionable.
Whatever may be his medium of expression he utters truth with manifest beauty of thought. If he is an architect, his building is natural. In him, philosophy and genius live by each other, but the combination is subject to popular suspicion and appellation ‘genius’ likely to settle him–so far as the public is concerned.” ― Frank Lloyd Wright Quote
Whatever may be his medium of expression he utters truth with manifest beauty of thought. If he is an architect, his building is natural. In him, philosophy and genius live by each other, but the combination is subject to popular suspicion and appellation ‘genius’ likely to settle him–so far as the public is concerned.” ― Frank Lloyd Wright Quote
“Now a work of art is a work of nature, but it is a work of human nature. It is a work of the mind: and it’s a work of the mind in circumstances for an occasion which, to which, for which, and which it may be supremely natural and simple and effective.”― Frank Lloyd Wright Quote
“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 Quote
Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.” ― Frank Lloyd Wright Quote
“As we work along our various ways, there takes shape within us, in some sort, an ideal – something we are to become – some work to be done. This, I think, is denied to very few, and we begin really to live only when the thrill of this ideality moves us in what we will to accomplish.” ― Frank Lloyd Wright Quote
“The Machine is Intellect mastering the drudgery of the earth that the plastic art may live; that the margin of leisure and strength by which man’s life upon earth can be made beautiful, may immeasurably widen; its function ultimately to emancipate human expression!” ― Frank Lloyd Wright Quote
“What is needed most in architecture today is the very thing that is most needed in life- Integrity. Just as it is in a human being, so integrity is the deepest quality in a building…if we succeed, we will have done a great service to our moral nature- the psyche- of our democratic society…Stand up for integrity in your building and you stand for integrity not only in the life of those who did the building but socially a reciprocal relationship is inevitable.” ― Frank Lloyd Wright Quote
“Man in his upended street must know he is becoming a mere numerical item of convenience; on the way to being a thing. His inherent instinct for love and beauty is not only becoming suspect but, in spite of all intent, useless to society. He sees the human creature atrophy as he sees poverty of imagination in much “modern art,” so-called. But it was Walt Whitman himself who raised the perpendicular hand to declare: “It is provided in the essence of things that from any fruition of success no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary.” This is what is now coming forth in our architecture as in our life.” ― Frank Lloyd Wright Quote
“Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.” ― Frank Lloyd Wright Quote
“Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed. ” ― Frank Lloyd Wright Quote
“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 Quote
“You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.” ― Frank Lloyd Wright Quote
“Youth is not an age thing. It’s a quality. Once you’ve had it, you never lose it.” ― Frank Lloyd Wright Quote
“Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day’s work.” ― Frank Lloyd Wright Quote
“An idea is salvation by imagination” ― Frank Lloyd Wright Quote
“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 Quote
“study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.” ― Frank Lloyd Wright Quote
“The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.” ― Frank Lloyd Wright Quote
“give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.”― Frank Lloyd Wright Quote
“The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.” ― Frank Lloyd Wright Quote
“An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.” ― Frank Lloyd Wright Quote
“How many understand that Nature is the essencial character of whatever is. It’s something you’ll find by looking not at, but in, always in. It’s always inside the thing, and it makes the outside. And some day, when you get sufficiently proficient in understanding the use of the term, you can tell by the outside pretty much from what’s inside.
[…] But everything that’s ever going to be of use to you in architecture or in life or anywhere you go or whatever you do is going to be Nature, in some of its immensely varied forms. So varied that there’s no end to the variety imaginable.”― Frank Lloyd Wright Quote
[…] But everything that’s ever going to be of use to you in architecture or in life or anywhere you go or whatever you do is going to be Nature, in some of its immensely varied forms. So varied that there’s no end to the variety imaginable.”― Frank Lloyd Wright Quote
“A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn’t afterward.” ― Frank Lloyd Wright Quote
“Liberty may be granted but freedom cannot be conferred. Freedom is from within. Notwithstanding all the abuses to which freedom is now subject–marking man down as a commercial item and cutting him off from his birthright by senseless
excess and the demoralization of the profit-system–yet man may still be in love with life and find life less and less abundant for this very reason. Truth is of freedom, always safe and affirmative, therefore conservative. Truth proclaims rejection of dated minor traditions, doomed by the great Tradition of The Law of Change is truth’s great “eternal.” Freedom is this “great becoming.” ― Frank Lloyd Wright Quote
excess and the demoralization of the profit-system–yet man may still be in love with life and find life less and less abundant for this very reason. Truth is of freedom, always safe and affirmative, therefore conservative. Truth proclaims rejection of dated minor traditions, doomed by the great Tradition of The Law of Change is truth’s great “eternal.” Freedom is this “great becoming.” ― Frank Lloyd Wright Quote
“The mission of an architect is to help people understand how to make life more beautiful, the world a better one for living in, and to give reason, rhyme, and meaning to life.” ― Frank Lloyd Wright Quote
“You will find Goodness and Truth everywhere you go. If you have to choose, choose Truth. For that is closest to Earth. Keep close to the Earth, …: in that lies strength. Simplicity of heart is just as necessary for an architect as for a farmer or a minister if the architect is going to build great buildings.” ― Frank Lloyd Wright Quote
“The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.” ― Frank Lloyd Wright Quote
“An idea is inevitably a coordination. It is a coming together of something that is separate or disorganized or incomplete. With an idea you begin to feel into the nature of that incompleteness.”― Frank Lloyd Wright Quote
“We have no longer an outside and an inside as two separate things. Now the outside may come inside and the inside may and does go outside. They are of each other. Form and function thus become one in design and execution if the nature of materials and method and purpose are all in unison.” ― Frank Lloyd Wright Quote
“The longer that I live the more beautiful life becomes.” ― Frank Lloyd Wright Quote
“Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust.” ― Frank Lloyd Wright Quote
“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 Quote
“I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.” ― Frank Lloyd Wright Quote
“A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.” ― Frank Lloyd Wright Quote
“I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.” ― Frank Lloyd Wright Quote