Imitate nothing except principle. Frank Lloyd Wright More Quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright More Quotes From 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 hurtbeautifulinspirational 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 buildingcirclescommunity Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union. Frank Lloyd Wright misunderstooddesignspiritual I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen. Frank Lloyd Wright successmotivationalinspirational 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 surroundingsbuildingshould The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life. Frank Lloyd Wright beautifulbeautylife No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other. Frank Lloyd Wright farewellartisthouse Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. Frank Lloyd Wright stay-stronginspirationallife You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having. Frank Lloyd Wright long-distance-relationshipmotivationalgraduation Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use. Frank Lloyd Wright discoverybeautifulart I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it. Frank Lloyd Wright buildingdesignpeople You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site. Frank Lloyd Wright hammersdesignuse Space is the breath of art. Frank Lloyd Wright architecturespaceart We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional. Frank Lloyd Wright shouldsnailhome The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. Frank Lloyd Wright mothercivilizationart A building is not just a place to be but a way to be. Frank Lloyd Wright architectureinspirationway The truth is more important than the facts. Frank Lloyd Wright truthwisewitty If it sells, it's art. Frank Lloyd Wright sellsifsart Simplicity and Repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art. Frank Lloyd Wright inspiringinspirationalart Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use the word order. Frank Lloyd Wright bad-assbadassreality
