Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes

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

"Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.Sincerity is the greatest virtue of the mind.Determination is the greatest virtue of the will.Courage is the greatest virtue of the spirit."

"If White County imposed big restrictions and fees, we wouldn't fool with timber in White County when we can get timber [elsewhere] without any hassle."

"TV is chewing gum for the eyes."

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

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

"Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed."

"The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes."

"TV -- chewing gum for the eyes."

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

"We didn't do a very good job in the first half. We were very lax on defense and didn't play with a whole lot of intensity. I thought we came back and did an excellent job in the second half. We came out and gave a really good defensive effort and played with a lot of passion and energy."

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

"Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you."

"Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world."

"Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll Le Corbusier go write four books about it."

"Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art."