Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes About Architecture

Quotes about: Architecture

• I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  God, Atheist, Nature

  Quote magazine, August 14, 1966.

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

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Mother, Art, Civilization

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Inspirational, Funny, Beautiful

  "A Living Architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright and Taliesin Architects". Book by John Rattenbury, 2000.

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

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Architecture, Ifs, Architect

  "A Living Architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright and Taliesin Architects". Book by John Rattenbury, 2000.

• 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.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

  "A Living Architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright and Taliesin Architects". Book by John Rattenbury, 2000.

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

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Birthday, Meaningful, Falling Water

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1992). “Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1931-1939”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns

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

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Boards, Bars, Tools

• Space is the breath of art.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Art, Space, Architecture

• Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Simplicity, Design, Comfort

  Jennifer Fandel, Frank Lloyd Wright (2005). “Frank Lloyd Wright”, The Creative Company

• When I see architecture that moves me, I hear music in my inner ear

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Moving, Ears, Architecture

• Architecture is for the young. If our teenagers don't get architecture - if they are not inspired, (then) we won't have the architecture that we must have if this country is going to be beautiful.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Beautiful, Country, Art

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

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Witty, Badass, Mistake

  The New York Times Magazine, October 04, 1953.

• All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Badass, Bad Ass, Architecture

  Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (1995). “1949-1959”, Rizzoli International Publications

• 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.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Yesterday, Records, World

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1941). “Frank Lloyd Wright on architecture: selected writings 1894-1940”

• Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use the word order.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Badass, Bad Ass, Reality

• The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Modern Life, Architecture, Modern

• If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Wise, Wisdom, Finding Yourself

• So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal and the teaching so much needed if we are to see the whole of life, and to now serve the whole of life, holding no traditions essential to the great TRADITION. Nor cherishing any preconceived form fixing upon us either past, present or future, but-instead-exalting the simple laws of common sense-or of super-sense if you prefer-determining form by way of the nature of materials.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Teaching, Past, Simple

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1970). “The Future of Architecture”

• When we come to understand architecture as the essential nature of all harmonious structure we will see that it is the architecture of music that inspired Bach and Beethoven, the architecture of painting that is inspiring Picasso as it inspired Velasquez, that it is the architecture of life itself that is the inspiration of the great poets and philosophers.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Inspiration, Essentials, Philosopher

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1992). “Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1931-1939”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns

• Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Men, Imagination, Triumph

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1941). “Frank Lloyd Wright on architecture: selected writings 1894-1940”

• You can't make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Art, Light, Doors

• Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Government, Architecture, Results

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

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Inspiration, Way, Architecture

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

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Architecture, Modern, Preaching

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1970). “The Future of Architecture”

• A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Inspiration, Science, Coffins

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1995). “Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1949-1959”, Rizzoli International Publications

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