51 Quotes By Frank Lloyd Wright


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 politics

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

Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.
Frank Lloyd Wright on respect

Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.
Frank Lloyd Wright on strength

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

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
Frank Lloyd Wright on technology

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 time

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

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

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 work

Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
Frank Lloyd Wright on american