Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTToleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTNo 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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTI’ll bridge these hills with graceful arches
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTThere is no true understanding of any art without some knowledge of its philosophy. Only then does its meaning come clear.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTLess is more only when more is too much.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTMany wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTEarly in my career, I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility… I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I’ve never been sorry.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTIf it sells, it’s art.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTThe 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 WRIGHTAn idea is inevitably a coordination. It is a coming together of something that is separate or disorganized or incomplete. With an idea you begin to feel into the nature of that incompleteness.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTAs we work along our various ways, there takes shape within us, in some sort, an ideal – something we are to become – some work to be done. This, I think, is denied to very few, and we begin really to live only when the thrill of this ideality moves us in what we will to accomplish.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTDining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTLife is truth.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTI don’t know whether you are a saint or a fool said my lawyer. I replied Is there a difference?
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTThe belief in a thing makes it happen.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTNow a work of art is a work of nature, but it is a work of human nature. It is a work of the mind: and it’s a work of the mind in circumstances for an occasion which, to which, for which, and which it may be supremely natural and simple and effective.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT