Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes

Throughout the ages it has always been possible to point to good and bad architecture.

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering!

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

Pictures, abstract symbols, materials, and colors are among the ingredients with which a designer or engineer works. To design is to discover relationships and to make arrangements and rearrangements among these ingredients.

If I had to name my greatest value in life, it would be beauty.

To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.

Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions cost nothing. In fact, most of them are proportions among things, not the things themselves. Art is almost always a question of proportions.

The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.

I think complexity is beautiful.

I think my love of form is especially informed by my background, whether this is creating a wonderful silhouette in a dress or finding the perfect shape for a bowl or the 'just so' angle of a table leg.

Architecture is crystallized music.

The essence of taste is suitability. Divest the word of its prim and priggish implications, and see how it expresses the mysterious demand of the eye and mind for symmetry, harmony and order.

What I dream of is an art of balance.

What I was trying to construct was relative symmetry, where it seems clear that the shapes have arrived through consideration.

And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.

If I was influenced by anything, it was architecture: structure having to do with logic. If you don't do it right, the whole thing is going to cave in. In a certain sense, you can carry that to graphic design. Fortunately, however, nobody is going to die if you do it wrong.

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

Form follows beauty.

I knew style and content went hand in hand.