Quotes from Frank Lloyd Wright

The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.

'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

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.

As we live and as we are, Simplicity - with a capital S - is difficult to comprehend nowadays. We are no longer truly simple. We no longer live in simple terms or places. Life is a more complex struggle now. It is now valiant to be simple: a courageous thing to even want to be simple. It is a spiritual thing to comprehend what simplicity means.

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.

give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.

1. An honest ego in a healthy body 2. An eye to see nature 3. A heart to feel nature 4. Courage to follow nature 5. A sense of proportion (humor) 6. Appreciation of work as idea and idea as work 7. Fertility of imagination 8. Capacity for faith and rebellion 9. Disregard for commonplace (inorganic) elegance 10. Instinctive cooperation

Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.

Self fulfilling prophecies do exist in real life.