51 Quotes By Frank Lloyd Wright


God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
Frank Lloyd Wright on god

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 on god

Less is only more where more is no good.
Frank Lloyd Wright on good

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 government

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 government

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 great

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
Frank Lloyd Wright on great

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 on great

Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
Frank Lloyd Wright on great

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.
Frank Lloyd Wright on home

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

An idea is salvation by imagination.
Frank Lloyd Wright on imagination

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

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

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 life

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

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

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

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
Frank Lloyd Wright on nature

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 on nature