Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn’t afterward.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Age Drink Fool Man
I don’t know whether you are a saint or a fool said my lawyer. I replied Is there a difference?
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Difference Fools Myself See
Now 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

Art Human Mindset Nature Simplicity
If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Beautiful Investment Life Yourself
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Art Civilization Mom Soul
The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Greatness Human Limitation
The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Design Wrong
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

Beautiful Ignorance Life Live Myself Perspective Philosophy Yourself
The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Heart Inspirational Mindset Success
The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Best Friendship Man Material Respect Tree
More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Beautiful Light Myself
Imitate nothing except principle.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

One Liner Principle
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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Happiness Home Live Nature Togetherness
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Education Perfection Student
The measure of a man’s culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Gratitude Man Ourselves Philosophy
As 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 WRIGHT

Accomplishment Beginning Ideal Myself Ourselves Thinking

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