Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.”

“A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.”

“Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.”

“Mechanization best serves mediocrity.”

“Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.”

“Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.”

“There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.”

“Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.”

“An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.”

“Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.”