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" 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

Light

Strength

Environment

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

" 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. "

" To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor. "

Frank Lloyd Wright

Big

Look

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

" Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves. "

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

Give Me

Give

" There is nothing more uncommon than common sense. "

Frank Lloyd Wright

Common Sense

Nothing

" Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. "

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

" New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent. "

" Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual. "

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

" 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. "

" 'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles. "

" The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope. "

" An idea is salvation by imagination. "

" Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun. "

" Space is the breath of art. "

" The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes. "

Frank Lloyd Wright

Life

Longer

" Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it. "

Frank Lloyd Wright

Write

Well

" I feel coming on a strange disease - humility. "

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

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

" Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age. "

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