There is nothing more uncommon than common sense. Frank Lloyd Wright More Quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright More Quotes From Frank Lloyd Wright I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church. Frank Lloyd Wright church Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth Frank Lloyd Wright triumphimaginationmen Building becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful, to put concordance, sympathy with nature, and all that into it. Then you have architecture. Frank Lloyd Wright mindbeautifulmen 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 inspirationbeautifulart 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 architectartistyears A vital difference between the professional man and a man of business is that money making to the professional man should, by virtue of his assumption, be incidental; to the businessman it is primary. Money has its limitations; while it may buy quantity, there is something beyond it and that is quality. Frank Lloyd Wright qualitydifferencesmen 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 brainheartway 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 falling-waterbirthdaymeaningful Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. Frank Lloyd Wright artistbusinesshouse How many understand that Nature is the essential character of whatever is. It's something you'll find by looking not at, but in, always in. It's always inside the thing, and it makes the outside. And some day, when you get sufficiently proficient in understanding the use of the term, you can tell by the outside pretty much from what's inside. Frank Lloyd Wright essentialsunderstandingcharacter As we live and as we are, Simplicity - with a capital "S" - is difficult to comprehend nowadays. We are no longer truly simple. We no longer live in simple terms or places. Life is a more complex struggle now. It is now valiant to be simple: a courageous thing to even want to be simple. It is a spiritual thing to comprehend what simplicity means. Frank Lloyd Wright strugglespiritualmean Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions. Frank Lloyd Wright sarcasmmoneysarcastic Less is only more where more is no good. Frank Lloyd Wright artistsweetinteresting A civilization is only a way of life. A culture is the way of making that way of life beautiful. So culture is your office here in America, and as no stream can rise higher than its source, so you can give no more or better to architecture than you are. So why not go to work on yourselves, to make yourselves, in quality, what you would have your buildings be? Frank Lloyd Wright wisdombeautifulcivilization If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it. Frank Lloyd Wright finding-yourselfwisdomwise A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward. Frank Lloyd Wright stupiddrinkingbeer The best thing to do is go as far out as you can get... what you regard as 'too far' - and when others follow, as they will, move on Frank Lloyd Wright best-thingsthings-to-domoving Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme. Frank Lloyd Wright schemesmaterials Architecture is for the young. If our teenagers don't get architecture - if they are not inspired, (then) we won't have the architecture that we must have if this country is going to be beautiful. Frank Lloyd Wright beautifulcountryart Freedom is from within. Frank Lloyd Wright thrive4th-of-julyfreedom
