Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes

For this, if for no other reason, degeneration of creative ability in America has had ample support, and what nobility our society might still have is in danger of being submerged in overwhelming tides of rising conformity.

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

Philosophy is to the mind of the architect as eyesight is to his steps. The term "genius" when applied to him simply means a man who understands what others only know about.

A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

So the poet in the engineer and the engineer in the poet and both in the architect may be seen here working together, lifelong.

An idea is salvation by imagination

Spirit is man's new power if he is to be truly mighty in his civilization.

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

Genuine expressions as essence of the great art itself cannot be taught or imitated. Nor can they in any way be forced.

Imitation is always insult — not flattery.

We have no longer an outside and an inside as two separate things. Now the outside may come inside and the inside may and does go outside. They are of each other. Form and function thus become one in design and execution if the nature of materials and method and purpose are all in unison.

In every new expression of a fundamental Idea there will always be the substitutes, the imitations, dangling from it, as the soiled fringe from a good garment.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

Freedom lies within.

"As we live and as we are, Simplicity - with a capital "S" - is difficult to comprehend nowadays. We are no longer truly simple. We no longer live in simple terms or places. Life is a more complex struggle now. It is now valiant to be simple: a courageous thing to even want to be simple. It is a spiritual thing to comprehend what simplicity means."