304 Quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Remy de Gourmont An idea is salvation by imagination

Now, of course, architecture is a blind spot of our life in America today. How many millions of students go to the university to be educated? They come away conditioned, not enlightened, and they know nothing of architecture, although they have a department somewhere around -- probably in the basement.

I know we can't have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord.

I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city.

If you're going to have centralization, why not have it!

Doctors bury their mistakes, Architects cover them with ivy

Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly, but take every building to pieces, and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the curious from the beautiful. Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. 'Think simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas.

I'll bridge these hills with graceful arches