304 Quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright

All the more I study Nature do I revere God, because Nature is all the body of God we will ever know.

Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?

You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.

How many understand that Nature is the essential character of whatever is. It's something you'll find by looking not at, but in, always in. It's always inside the thing, and it makes the outside. And some day, when you get sufficiently proficient in understanding the use of the term, you can tell by the outside pretty much from what's inside.

A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.

When anyone becomes an authority, that is the end of him as far as development is concerned.

Taste is a matter of ignorance. If you know what you are tasting, you don't have to taste.

We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.

Consider everything in the nature of a hanging fixture a weakness, and naked radiators an abomination.