The Machine is Intellect mastering the drudgery of the earth that the plastic art may live; that the margin of leisure and strength by which man’s life upon earth can be made beautiful, may immeasurably widen; its function ultimately to emancipate human expression!

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes

I know we can’t have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

If you’re going to have centralization, why not have it!

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Doctors bury their mistakes, Architects cover them with ivy.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Remy de Gourmont An idea is salvation by imagination.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. The size of the project means little in art, beyond the money matter. It is the quality of the character that really counts.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist’s hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Each material has its own message.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you’re an atheist, pretend how God would do it.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn’t fastened down slides into Southern California.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

What I like best about San Francisco is San Francisco.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Architecture is the frame of human existence. We must dedicate this existence more to beauty. For if poetic principle has deserted us, how long are we going to last?

— Frank Lloyd Wright

If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

What is needed most in architecture today is the very thing that is most needed in life- Integrity. Just as it is in a human being, so integrity is the deepest quality in a building... if we succeed, we will have done a great service to our moral nature- the psyche- of our democratic society... Stand up for integrity in your building and you stand for integrity not only in the life of those who did the building but socially a reciprocal relationship is inevitable.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

As we work along our various ways, there takes shape within us, in some sort, an ideal – something we are to become – some work to be done. This, I think, is denied to very few, and we begin really to live only when the thrill of this ideality moves us in what we will to accomplish.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The Machine is Intellect mastering the drudgery of the earth that the plastic art may live; that the margin of leisure and strength by which man’s life upon earth can be made beautiful, may immeasurably widen; its function ultimately to emancipate human expression!

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The mission of an architect is to help people understand how to make life more beautiful, the world a better one for living in, and to give reason, rhyme, and meaning to life.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

You will find Goodness and Truth everywhere you go. If you have to choose, choose Truth. For that is closest to Earth. Keep close to the Earth,... : in that lies strength. Simplicity of heart is just as necessary for an architect as for a farmer or a minister if the architect is going to build great buildings.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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