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 on age
A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward. Frank Lloyd Wright on age
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 on architecture
An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site. Frank Lloyd Wright on architecture
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. Frank Lloyd Wright on architecture
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity. Frank Lloyd Wright on architecture
Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world. Frank Lloyd Wright on 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. Frank Lloyd Wright on architecture
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed. Frank Lloyd Wright on art
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. Frank Lloyd Wright on art
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art. Frank Lloyd Wright on art
The architect should strive continually to simplify the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty. Frank Lloyd Wright on beauty
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. Frank Lloyd Wright on business
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 on change
A free America... 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. Frank Lloyd Wright on freedom