79 quotes
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.
Lecture to the Chicago Women's Aid (1918)
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
Architecture is the triumph of Human Imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth.
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
My Favorite Quotations (1990)
Get the habit of analysis- analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.
I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city.
Mediocrity serves it best because mechanization best serves the mediocre.
If you're going to have centralization, why not have it!
Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.
The Duality of Vision : Genius and Versatility in the Arts (1970)
Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.
Every great architect is — necessarily — a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
The Future of Architecture (1953)
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.
Frank Lloyd Wright: An Autobiography (1932)
All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
The Living City (1958)
I believe in God, only I spell it "Nature".
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
The Wright Style (1992)
To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.
The Living City (1958)
Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.
Clear out 800,000 people and preserve it as a museum piece.
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.
An Organic Architecture (1970)
The spiritual dignity of this new humane life for mankind is the Spirit of Man himself sacrosanct.
A Testament (1957)