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Frank Lloyd Wright
- Life
- 1867-1959
- Occupations
- architect, urban planner, writer
- Notable works
- Emil Bach House, Pettit Memorial Chapel, Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church
Facts: Wikidata (CC0), as of 2026-07-09
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Freedom is from within.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
Frank Lloyd Wright
I believe in God, only I call it Nature
Frank Lloyd Wright
I believe in God, only I spell it “Nature”.
Frank Lloyd Wright
I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.
Frank Lloyd Wright
If you foolishly ignore beauty, you’ll soon find yourself without it. Your life will be improverished. But if you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
Frank Lloyd Wright
If you foolishly ignore beauty, you'll soon find yourself without it. Your life will be improverished. But if you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life. New York Times Magazine, October 4, 1953
Frank Lloyd Wright
Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master's work of art. Individuality is sacred.
Frank Lloyd Wright
It is a great monument to the power of money and greed...a race for rent.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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
No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
Frank Lloyd Wright
The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.
Frank Lloyd Wright
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Truth against the world.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
Frank Lloyd Wright