Frank Lloyd Wright

Architecture American 1867 – 1959 269 quotes

Greatest American architect, Fallingwater

Quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright

The architect is the prophet of the future.

Interview 1957

The architect is the conscience of the past.

Interview 1957

The architect is the interpreter of the present.

Interview 1957

The architect is the creator of environment.

Interview 1957

The architect is the shaper of destiny.

Interview 1957

The architect is the artist of the people.

Interview 1957

The architect is the voice of the land.

Interview 1957

The architect is the spirit of the age.

Interview 1957

The architect is the heart of the home.

Interview 1957

The architect is the soul of the city.

Interview 1957

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.

An Autobiography 1943

Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

Interview 1926

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

Speech 1950

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

Essay 1908

An expert is a man who stops thinking because he knows.

Letter 1940

Less is only more where more is no extra.

Book 1932

You can use the finest mathematician in the world and he couldn't put in the place of the architect.

Speech 1957

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

Letter 1920

No house should ever be on any hill or on anything. It should be of the hill, belonging to it, so hill and house could live together each the happier for the other.

Essay 1935

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

Aphorism 1900