Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

I know the price of success: dedication hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Remy de Gourmont An idea is salvation by imagination.

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

Early in life I had to choose between arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly but take every building to pieces and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the curious from the beautiful. Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. 'Think simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms getting back to first principles.