Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes - Page 3

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. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it.

An idea is salvation by imagination.

Space. The continual becoming: invisible fountain from which all rhythms flow and to which they must pass. Beyond time or infinity

No house should ever be on any hill... It should be of the hill.

The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.

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.

Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.

As we live and as we are, Simplicity - with a capital "S" - is difficult to comprehend nowadays. We are no longer truly simple. We no longer live in simple terms or places. Life is a more complex struggle now. It is now valiant to be simple: a courageous thing to even want to be simple. It is a spiritual thing to comprehend what simplicity means.

I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.

Youth is not an age thing. It's a quality. Once you've had it, you never lose it.

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

Freedom is from within.

The measure of a man's culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.

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.

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

It's easier to make changes with a pencil than a wrecking bar.

If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it.

Science can give us only the tools in the box, these mechanical miracles that it has already given us. But of what use to us are miraculous tools until we have mastered the humane, cultural use of them? We do not want to live in a world where the machine has mastered the man; we want to live in a world where man has mastered the machine.

A vital difference between the professional man and a man of business is that money making to the professional man should, by virtue of his assumption, be incidental; to the businessman it is primary. Money has its limitations; while it may buy quantity, there is something beyond it and that is quality.

How many understand that Nature is the essential 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.

No stream rises higher than its source

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet.

"I don't know whether you are a saint or a fool" said my lawyer. I replied "Is there a difference?"

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

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