Quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright

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

"A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart."

"Less is only more where more is no good."

"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."

"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."

"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."

"TV is chewing gum for the eyes."

"A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it."

"Freedom is from within."

"Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change."

"Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral."

"Mechanization best serves mediocrity."

"The architect should strive continually to simplify the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty."

"Space is the breath of art."

"Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art."

"Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed."

"Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall."

"Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world."

"Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity."

"The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization."