Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
25 quotes from Frank Lloyd Wright — America's most famous architect who designed Fallingwater, the Guggenheim Museum, and over 1,000 structures across 70 y….
“The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.”
“The room within is the great fact about the building—the space within to be lived in.”
“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”
“The reality of the building lies in the space within, not in the walls that enclose it.”
“I want you to live with the waterfall, not just look at it, but for it to become an integral part of your lives.”
“The mother art is architecture. Without architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.”
“Form follows function—that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.”
“An idea is salvation by imagination.”
“The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.”
“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.”
“Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.”
“The truth is more important than the facts.”
“I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.”
“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.”
“Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.”
“The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.”
“Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.”
“A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.”
“Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.”
“I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.”
“I am not only the greatest architect who has yet lived, but also the greatest who will ever live. Yes, I believe it to be true.”
“Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.”
“An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.”
“I would rather have built Fallingwater than be president of the United States.”
“Space is the breath of art.”
