Frank Lloyd Wright

An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

Frank Lloyd Wright

An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.

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 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 is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

Beautiful buildings are more than scientific. They are true organisms, spiritually conceived; works of art, using the best technology by inspiration rather than the idiosyncrasies of mere taste or any averaging by the committee mind.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Each material has its own message.

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