Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes

Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm.

We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.

You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.

Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.

Freedom lies within.

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

Less is more only when more is too much.

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

The Machine is Intellect mastering the drudgery of the earth that the plastic art may live; that the margin of leisure and strength by which man’s life upon earth can be made beautiful, may immeasurably widen; its function ultimately to emancipate human expression!

Early 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.