304 Quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright

Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.

The sense of space within the reality of any building is a new concept wherever architecture is concerned. But it is essential ancient principle just the same and is not only necessary now but implied by the ideal of democracy itself.

Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived.

Wherever human life is concerned, the unnatural stricture of excessive verticality cannot stand against more natural horizontality.

We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.

Beautiful buildings are more than scientific. They are true organisms, spiritually conceived; works of art, using the best technology by inspiration rather than the idiosyncrasies of mere taste or any averaging by the committee mind.

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.