True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building, or a park. At its best it is an emphasis of structure, a realization in graceful terms of the nature of that which is ornamented.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes

So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal...

— Frank Lloyd Wright

I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

All I learned from Eliel Saarinen was how to make out an expense account.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The best friend of earth of man is the tree.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Creative

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

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