Quotes from Frank Lloyd Wright

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

Freedom is from within.

Business is like riding a bicycle. Either you keep moving or you fall down.

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

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

The measure of a man's culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.

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

Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines — so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

There is no true understanding of any art without some knowledge of its philosophy. Only then does its meaning come clear.

We have no longer an outside and an inside as two separate things. Now the outside may come inside and the inside may and does go outside. They are of each other. Form and function thus become one in design and execution if the nature of materials and method and purpose are all in unison.