Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes

American architect (1867-1959)

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Frank Lloyd Wright (8 June 1867 – 9 April 1959) was an American architect, interior designer, writer, and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures, 532 of which were completed. Wright believed in designing structures that were in harmony with humanity and its environment, with a philosophy he called organic architecture.

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Birth Name: Franklin Lincoln Wright

Alternative Names: Frank Lincoln Wright • F. L. Wright • Frank Lloyd Lincoln Wright • Frank Lloid Rait • Frank Luyd Rayt • Lloyd Wright Frank • FLW

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

...there is no true understanding of any art without some knowledge of its philosophy. Only then does its meaning come clear.

This drift toward quantity instead of quality is largely distortion. Conformity is always too convenient? Quality means individuality, is therefore difficult. But unless we go deeper now, quantity at expense to quality will be our national tragedy—the rise of mediocrity into high places.

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

As for religion true to the teaching of the great redeemer who said "The Kingdom of God is within you—that religion is yet to come: the concept true not only for the new reality of building but for the faith we call democracy. Nevertheless and notwithstanding, I have wanted to build this faith—life-long.

Thus the plausible expedient has become gospel and continues to be generally foisted upon those who seek better things; the conformities proclaimed by authority, however specious, temporarily mistaken for Godhead.

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.

The belief in a thing makes it happen.

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature and it has been said often by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And, I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see. If we wish to know the truth concerning anything, we'll find it in the nature of that thing.

Science is inventive but creative never.

Less is more only when more is too much.

New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.

Is false abstraction always the consequence of spiritual degeneration?

Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.

There is release from anguish in action.