Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.

Form follows function – that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.

Architecture is man’sgreat sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as its source because great art is great life.

The truth is more important than the facts.

I’m against war. Always have been, always will be. And everything connected with it, is anathema to me. I have never considered it necessary.

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.

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.