A biography for Frank Lloyd Wrighthasn’t been written yet.
“The space within becomes the reality of the building.”
“Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.”
“New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.”
“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.”
“Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.”
“Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.”
“Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.”
“The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.”
“No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.”
“TV is chewing gum for the eyes.”
“Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.”
“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.”
“Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.”
“A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.”
“The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.”
“Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.”
“The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.”
“Freedom is from within.”
“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.”
“Space is the breath of art.”