“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 DemocracyFreedomMeanSlave
“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 ChangeLife
“The truth is more important than the facts.” Frank Lloyd Wright ImportantInspirationalLifeTruthWisdom
“Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.” Frank Lloyd Wright Life
“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 Time
“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.” Frank Lloyd Wright LifeLoveNatureWisdom
“A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.” Frank Lloyd Wright DoctorFunnyLieMistakeWisdomArchitectAdviceClientPlant
“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 GodNature
“Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.” Frank Lloyd Wright
“An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.” Frank Lloyd Wright
“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 Brain
“Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.” Frank Lloyd Wright
“The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.” Frank Lloyd Wright Mother
“I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.” Frank Lloyd Wright Life
“Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.” Frank Lloyd Wright GoodStudent
“Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.” Frank Lloyd Wright Work
“I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.” Frank Lloyd Wright Lie
“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 BeautyCare
“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 FoolWar
“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.” Frank Lloyd Wright
“'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.” Frank Lloyd Wright MeanOld