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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

Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

An idea is salvation by imagination.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

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

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.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.

Frank Lloyd Wright

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

Frank Lloyd Wright

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

Frank Lloyd Wright