Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm. — Frank Lloyd Wright

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Consider everything in the nature of a hanging fixture a weakness, and naked radiators an abomination. — Frank Lloyd Wright

I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church. — Frank Lloyd Wright

All the more I study Nature do I revere God, because Nature is all the body of God we will ever know. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see. — Frank Lloyd Wright

A building is not just a place to be but a way to be. — Frank Lloyd Wright

The outside of any building may now come inside and the inside go outside, each seems as part of the other. Continuity, plasticity, and all the new simplicity the imply have at last come home. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves. — Frank Lloyd Wright

The space within becomes the reality of the building. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun. — Frank Lloyd Wright

I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain. — Frank Lloyd Wright

More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Well, now that he’s finished one building, he’ll go write four books about it. — Frank Lloyd Wright

It is a terrific thing to get a building built that has the qualities of greatness in it. — Frank Lloyd Wright

We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us. — Frank Lloyd Wright

A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there. — Frank Lloyd Wright

I never design a building before I’ve seen the site and met the people who will be using it. — Frank Lloyd Wright

The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built. — Frank Lloyd Wright

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. — Frank Lloyd Wright

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. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Money shows [man] new ways to cheat life. Power becomes exterior instead of interior. In these circumstances architecture becomes too difficult, building too easy. — Frank Lloyd Wright

I know we can’t have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord. — Frank Lloyd Wright

I think Miss Monroe as architecture is extremely good architecture, and she’s a very natural actress, and a very good one. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Architecture is for the young. If our teenagers don’t get architecture–if they are not inspired, (then) we won’t have the architecture that we must have if this country is going to be beautiful. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Every great architect is–necessarily–a great poet. — Frank Lloyd Wright

The only thing wrong with architecture is architects. — Frank Lloyd Wright

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. — Frank Lloyd Wright

You can’t make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Every great architect is–necessarily–a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age. — Frank Lloyd Wright

The architect must be a prophet… a prophet in the true sense of the term… if he can’t see at least ten years ahead don’t call him an architect. — Frank Lloyd Wright

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

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

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. — Frank Lloyd Wright

A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Wherever human life is concerned, the unnatural stricture of excessive verticality cannot stand against more natural horizontality. — Frank Lloyd Wright

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes. — Frank Lloyd Wright

If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities. — Frank Lloyd Wright

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. — Frank Lloyd Wright

I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture. — 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

Architecture isman’sgreat sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as its source because great art isgreat life. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism… but only through the direct responsibility of the individual. — Frank Lloyd Wright

It is where life is fundamental and free that men develop the vision needed to reveal the human soul in the blossoms it puts forth. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Early in life, i had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. i chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasions to change. — Frank Lloyd Wright

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

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen. — Frank Lloyd Wright

I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day’s work. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day’s work. — Frank Lloyd Wright

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. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art. — Frank Lloyd Wright

The tall modern office building is the machine pure and simple…the engine, the motor and the battleship the works of the century. — 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

Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now. — Frank Lloyd Wright

A man with a machine may murder or enslave millions, whereas it used to take at least thousands to murder millions. And the man behind the machine has nothing on his conscience. — Frank Lloyd Wright

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable. — Frank Lloyd Wright

The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest. — Frank Lloyd Wright

A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Architecture is essentially Human; it is the Human spirit manifesting itself. For when a Man builds, there, you’ve got him; you know exactly what, who and how that Man is. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Architecture is the frame of human existence. We must dedicate this existence more to beauty. For if poetic principle has deserted us, how long are we going to last? — Frank Lloyd Wright

Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. — Frank Lloyd Wright

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

I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city. — Frank Lloyd Wright

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. — Frank Lloyd Wright

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

The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of the world and remember, it will be a poet, not a scientist. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Humanity to me is not a mob. A mob is a degeneration of humanity. A mob is humanity going the wrong way. — Frank Lloyd Wright