Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes

Architecture is intrinsic to Time, Place and Man.

Imitation is always insult — not flattery.

Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust.

Here I am, Philip, am I indoors or am I out? Do I take my hat off or keep it on?

Votes are counted. Yes—but vision can neither be counted nor discounted.

Man either learns to usefor humanity his new facilities or he perishes by them.

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.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

To me, young has no meaning. It’s something you can do nothing about, nothing at all. But youth is a quality. And if you have it, you never lose it.

... the huge business of education is not on speaking terms with culture and such culture as we now have is not on speaking terms with reality.

Clear out 800,000 people and preserve it as a museum piece.

"...pseudo-scientific minds, like those of the scientist or the painter in love with the pictorial, both teaching as they were taught to become architects, practice a kind of building which is inevitably the result of conditioning of the mind instead of enlightenment. By this standard means also, the old conformities are appearing as new but only in another guise, more insidious because they are especially convenient to the standardizations of the modernist plan-factory and wholly ignorant of anything but public expediency. So in our big cities architecture like religion is helpless under the blows of science and the crushing weight of conformity — caused to gravitate to the masquerade in our streets in the name of "modernity." Fearfully concealing lack of initial courage or fundamental preparation or present merit: reactionary. Institutional public influences calling themselves conservative are really no more than the usual political stand-patters or social lid-sitters. As a feature of our cultural life architecture takes a backward direction, becomes less truly radical as our life itself grows more sterile, more conformist. All this in order to be safe?
How soon will "we the people" awake to the fact that the philosophy of natural or intrinsic building we are here calling organic is at one with our freedom — as declared, 1776?"

Resemblances are mistaken for influences.

An idea is salvation by imagination

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