Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes

Respect should be earned by actions, and not acquired by years.

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

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

I'm no teacher. Never wanted to teach and don't believe in teaching an art. Science yes, business of course..but an art cannot be taught. You can only inculcate it, you can be an exemplar, you can create an atmosphere in which it can grow. Well I suppose I, being an exemplar, could be called a teacher, in spite of myself. So go ahead, call me a teacher.

A free America, democratic in the sense that our forefathers intended it to be, means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call 'democracy' is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

Every great architect is — necessarily — a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.