Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes, Thoughts and images

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

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

A professional does his best work when he feels the least like working.

A building is not just a place to be but a way to be.

Less is only more where more is no good.

Space is the breath of art.

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

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

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

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own, we have no soul of our civilization.

More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.

The truth is more important than the facts.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

I have never designed a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it.

If it sells, it's art.

Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation

Each material has its message.

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

Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge

Simplicity and Repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

The space within becomes the reality of the building.

I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.

A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

An idea is a salvation by imagination.