Frank Lloyd Wright

“A house is a machine for living in.”

“The mission of an architect is to help people understand how to make life more beautiful.”

“Every great architect is — necessarily — a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.”

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

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

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

“I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.”

“Space is the breath of art.”

“There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.”

“An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking bar at the site.”

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

“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.”

“A building should not be on a hill, but of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.”

“Less is only more where more is no good.”

“Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“An idea is salvation by imagination.”