304 Quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright

Doctors bury their mistakes, Architects cover them with ivy.

The measure of a man’s culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn’t afterward.

We’ve been fighting from the beginning for organic architecture. That is, architecture where the whole is to the part as the part is to the whole, and where the nature of materials, the nature of the purpose, the nature of the entire performance becomes a necessity-architecture of democracy.

Prison house for the soul.

Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.

We do not learn so much by our successes as we learn by failures – our own and others! Especially if we see the failures properly corrected.

I feel coming on a strange disease – humility.

Well, now that he’s finished one building, he’ll go write four books about it.