Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes

"Freedom is from within."

"An idea is salvation by imagination."

"Less is only more where more is no good."

"The truth is more important than the facts."

"Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them."

"Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see."

"All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable."

"If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger."

"Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

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

"If we wish to know the truth concerning anything, we'll find it in the nature of that thing."

"No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it."

"A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward."

"An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site."

"The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization."

"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."

"Every great architect is — necessarily — a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age."

"Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly."

"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."

"God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature and it has been said often 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."

Compiled by Thomas George
editor@Wisdom-of-the-Wise.com

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