A biography for Frank Lloyd Wrighthasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.”
“Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.”
“If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.”
“Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.”
“The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.”
“Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.”
“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.”
“No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.”
“Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.”
“There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.”
“Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.”
“An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.”
“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.”
“Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.”
“Less is only more where more is no good.”
“The truth is more important than the facts.”
“A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.”
“I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.”
“If it sells, it's art.”