Frank Lloyd Wright

Freedom is from within.

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.

Form follows function-that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

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.

An idea is salvation by imagination.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

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.

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines.

Television: chewing gum for the eyes.

Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

The truth is more important than the facts.

I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.

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