Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes - Page 6

By playing down to the idea of the common man, dogmatic political authority exploits him... So the ideal of innate aristocracy of which hour forefathers dreamed is betrayed for votes in the name of democracy.

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. The size of the project means little in art, beyond the money matter. It is the quality of the character that really counts.

To me, young has no meaning. It's something you can do nothing about, nothing at all. But youth is a quality. And if you have it, you never lose it.

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.

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.

A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.

Architectural features of true democratic ground-freedom would rise naturally from topography, which means that buildings would all take on the nature and character of the ground on which in endless variety they would stand and be component part.

The tall modern office building is the machine pure and simple...the engine, the motor and the battleship the works of the century.

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.

Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.

Humanity to me is not a mob. A mob is a degeneration of humanity. A mob is humanity going the wrong way.

For America today organic architecture interprets (will eventually build) this local embodiment of human freedom. This natural architecture seeks spaciousness, grace and openness; lightness and strength so completely balanced and logical that it is a new integrity.

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.

I'll bridge these hills with graceful arches

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

We've been fighting from the beginning for organic architecture. That is, architecture where the whole is to the part as the part is to the whole, and where the nature of materials, the nature of the purpose, the nature of the entire performance becomes a necessity-architecture of democracy.

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

Less is more only when more is too much.

True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building, or a park. At its best it is an emphasis of structure, a realization in graceful terms of the nature of that which is ornamented

Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master's work of art. Individuality is sacred.

Imitation is always insult--not flattery.

Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.

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