Frank Lloyd Wright - Architect Quotes

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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
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
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
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
The only thing wrong with architecture [is] the architects.

Frank Lloyd Wright
Any good architect is by nature a physicist as a matter of fact, but as a matter of reality, as things are, he must be a philosopher and a physician.

Frank Lloyd Wright
Machinery, materials and men — yes — these are the stuff by means of which the so-called American architect will get his architecture.... Only by the strength of his spirit's grasp upon all three — machinery, materials and men — will the architect be able so to build that his work may be worthy the great name architecture.

Frank Lloyd Wright