Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes

Youth is not an age thing. It's a quality. Once you've had it, you never lose it.

Resemblances are mistaken for influences.

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

If it sells, it's art.

You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.

The petty bias of personal taste can no longer hide either excrescence or spiritual poverty in the name of style.

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

The best thing to do is go as far out as you can get... what you regard as 'too far' — and when others follow, as they will, move on.

Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Architecture is life, or at least life itself taking form. . . the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or will ever be lived.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

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.

The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of the world and remember, it will be a poet, not a scientist.

Every great architect is — necessarily — a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

Philosophy is to the mind of the architect as eyesight to his steps. The Term 'genius' when applied to him simply means a man who understands what others only know about. A poet, artist or architect, necessarily 'understands' in this sense and is likely, if not careful, to have the term 'genius' applied to him; in which case he will no longer be thought human, trustworthy or companionable.
Whatever may be his medium of expression he utters truth with manifest beauty of thought. If he is an architect, his building is natural. In him, philosophy and genius live by each other, but the combination is subject to popular suspicion and appellation 'genius' likely to settle him — so far as the public is concerned.