Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes - Page 2

An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.

Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation

Beautiful buildings are more than scientific. They are true organisms, spiritually conceived; works of art, using the best technology by inspiration rather than the idiosyncrasies of mere taste or any averaging by the committee mind.

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.

Love is the virtue of the Heart, Sincerity is the virtue of the Mind, Decision is the virtue of the Will, Courage is the virtue of the Spirit.

Simplicity and Repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use the word order.

Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived.

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

More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.

The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.

The space within becomes the reality of the building.

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

Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

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

If it sells, it's art.

Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge

I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

The outside of any building may now come inside and the inside go outside, each seems as part of the other. Continuity, plasticity, and all the new simplicity the imply have at last come home.

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.

The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.