304 Quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright

I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.

All I learned from Eliel Saarinen was how to make out an expense account.

So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal...

As we work along our various ways, there takes shape within us, in some sort, an ideal – something we are to become – some work to be done. This, I think, is denied to very few, and we begin really to live only when the thrill of this ideality moves us in what we will to accomplish.

Imitation is always insult – not flattery.

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth.

From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn’t fastened down slides into Southern California.

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.

Architecture isman’sgreat sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as its source because great art isgreat life.