Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright (8 June 1867 – 9 April 1959) was an American architect.
Found 34 thoughts of Frank Lloyd Wright

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

An idea is salvation by imagination.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

Frank Lloyd Wright

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Freedom is from within.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

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

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.

Frank Lloyd Wright

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.

Frank Lloyd Wright

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Television: chewing gum for the eyes.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright
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