Frank Lloyd Wright

Form follows function—that has been misunderstood. Form and function are one.

A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

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

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

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

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

The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one that makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.

Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.

The space within becomes the reality of the building.

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking bar at the building site.

The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead, don't call him an architect.

The mission of an architect is to help people understand how to make life more beautiful, the world a better place for living in, and to give reason, rhyme, and meaning to life.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Imagination is the divine gift.

The reality of the building does not consist of the roof and walls but the space within to be lived in.

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

The only thing that is constant is change.

All fine architectural values are human values, or they are not valuable.