Quotes from Frank Lloyd Wright

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction site.

The best thing to do is go as far out as you can get... what you regard as 'too far' - and when others follow, as they will, move on

Love is the virtue of the Heart, Sincerity is the virtue of the Mind, Decision is the virtue of the Will, Courage is the virtue of the Spirit.

The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.

What is needed most in architecture today is the very thing that is most needed in life- Integrity. Just as it is in a human being, so integrity is the deepest quality in a building...if we succeed, we will have done a great service to our moral nature- the psyche- of our democratic society...Stand up for integrity in your building and you stand for integrity not only in the life of those who did the building but socially a reciprocal relationship is inevitable.

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

You will find Goodness and Truth everywhere you go. If you have to choose, choose Truth. For that is closest to Earth. Keep close to the Earth, ...: in that lies strength. Simplicity of heart is just as necessary for an architect as for a farmer or a minister if the architect is going to build great buildings.

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.