Frank Lloyd Wright quotes

1867-1959, American architect, designer and educator

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
Frank Lloyd Wright

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and a devotion to the things you want to
see happen.
Frank Lloyd Wright

A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.
Frank Lloyd Wright

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.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
Frank Lloyd Wright

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
Frank Lloyd Wright

The thing always happens that you really believe in - and the belief in a thing makes it
happen.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Less is more only when more is too much.
Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
Frank Lloyd Wright

I think Ms Monroe's architecture is extremely good architecture.
Frank Lloyd Wright

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.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Frank Lloyd Wright

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting
old.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Think simple as my old master used to say; meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the
simplest terms, getting back to first principles.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.
Frank Lloyd Wright

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

I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
Frank Lloyd Wright

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies
hope.
Frank Lloyd Wright

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.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Every great architect is, necessarily, a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of
his time, his day, his age.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the
former and have seen no reason to change.
Frank Lloyd Wright

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Frank Lloyd Wright

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.
Frank Lloyd Wright

If it sells, it's art.
Frank Lloyd Wright

If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.
Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism - but only through the
direct responsibility of the individual.
Frank Lloyd Wright

An idea is salvation by imagination.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
Frank Lloyd Wright

The truth is more important than the facts.
Frank Lloyd Wright