Frank Lloyd Wright Architect Quotations

If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it.

I know we can't have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord.

The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.

I think Ms. Monroe's architecture is extremely good architecture.

Architecture is essentially Human; it is the Human spirit manifesting itself. For when a Man builds, there, you've got him; you know exactly what, who and how that Man is.

Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.

I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet.

I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

When I see architecture that moves me, I hear music in my inner ear

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.

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 doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

All fine architectural values are human vales, else not valuable.

A building is not just a place to be but a way to be.

The belief in a thing makes it happen.

I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.

If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

No stream rises higher than its source

Space is the breath of art.

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

Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll Le Corbusier go write four books about it.