“Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly but take every building to pieces and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the curious from the beautiful. Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. 'Think simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms getting back to first principles.”
Frank Lloyd Wright“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.”
Frank Lloyd Wright, Truth Against the World: Frank Lloyd Wright Speaks for an Organic Architecture“My grandfather Frank Lloyd Wright wore a red sash on his wedding night. That is glamour!”
Anne Baxter“Freedom is from within.”
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“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“Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.”
Frank Lloyd Wright“Mechanization best serves mediocrity.”
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“Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.”
Frank Lloyd Wright“Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.”
Frank Lloyd Wright