Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
I believe in god, only I spell it nature.
The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
The truth is more important than the facts.
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.
Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Freedom is from within.
The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
It is where life is fundamental and free that men develop the vision needed to reveal the human soul in the blossoms it puts forth.
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.
The space within becomes the reality of the building.
Character is a healthy individual growth of freedom from within.
Old as man's mortal life is this urge to grow.
I feel coming on me a strange disease - humility.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.
The physician can bury his mistakes but, the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
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.
Liberty may be granted but freedom cannot be conferred.
Life always rides in strength to victory.
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.
I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist’s hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion.
If you would see how interwoven it is in the warp and woof of civilization ... go at night-fall to the top of one of the down-town steel giants and you may see how in the image of material man, at once his glory and his menace, is this thing we call a city.
I'm no teacher. Never wanted to teach and don't believe in teaching an art. Science yes, business of course..but an art cannot be taught. You can only inculcate it, you can be an exemplar, you can create an atmosphere in which it can grow.
A free America, democratic in the sense that our forefathers intended it to be, means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call 'democracy' is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
