304 Quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

The space within becomes the reality of the building.

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.

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.

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.