Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic. Frank Lloyd Wright More Quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright More Quotes From Frank Lloyd Wright "I don't know whether you are a saint or a fool" said my lawyer. I replied "Is there a difference?" Frank Lloyd Wright foolsaintdifferences The outcome of the city will depend on the race between the automobile and the elevator, and anyone who bets on the elevator is crazy. Frank Lloyd Wright crazycitiesrace Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain. Frank Lloyd Wright natureprinciplesinspiration TV is chewing gum for the eyes. Frank Lloyd Wright humorouswittyfunny We do not learn so much by our successes as we learn by failures - our own and others! Especially if we see the failures properly corrected. Frank Lloyd Wright ifs Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Frank Lloyd Wright resultsarchitecturegovernment Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed. Frank Lloyd Wright sakephilosophyart Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances. Frank Lloyd Wright qualitymattertime Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world. Frank Lloyd Wright artistbeautifulthinking Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes. Frank Lloyd Wright perfectly-goodcynicalartist To me, young has no meaning. It's something you can do nothing about, nothing at all. But youth is a quality. And if you have it, you never lose it. Frank Lloyd Wright youthqualityyoung Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm. Frank Lloyd Wright serenethunderstorm I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it. Frank Lloyd Wright artistwishbelieve Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles. Frank Lloyd Wright humorouslandfunny So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal and the teaching so much needed if we are to see the whole of life, and to now serve the whole of life, holding no traditions essential to the great TRADITION. Nor cherishing any preconceived form fixing upon us either past, present or future, but-instead-exalting the simple laws of common sense-or of super-sense if you prefer-determining form by way of the nature of materials. Frank Lloyd Wright simpleteachingpast The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind. Frank Lloyd Wright love-lifehateheart Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun. Frank Lloyd Wright naturelifechildren Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall. Frank Lloyd Wright vaccineswallartist We have no longer an outside and an inside as two separate things. Now the outside may come inside and the inside may and does go outside. They are of each other. Form and function thus become one in design and execution if the nature of materials and method and purpose are all in unison. Frank Lloyd Wright executiondesigntwo Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been sorry. Frank Lloyd Wright honestyhumilitysorry