Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes

The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.

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

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

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.

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

You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.

Space is the breath of art.

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 each the happier for the other.

Less is only more where more is no good.

Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use.

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

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

We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

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

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

Each material has its own message.

When we come to understand architecture as the essential nature of all harmonious structure we will see that it is the architecture of music that inspired Bach and Beethoven, the architecture of painting that is inspiring Picasso as it inspired Velasquez, that it is the architecture of life itself that is the inspiration of the great poets and philosophers.

Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change