Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes

In architecture it isn't enough to just have the right building that works well. It can also be beautiful. It can also be different. It can create surprise. And surprise is the main thing in a work of art. [] I like and respect Brasí­lia very much. It is a simple city, a rational one. I always defend the urban design of Brasí­lia

Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful.

Today, architecture is invention. It isn't enough to just be rational - It must also be beautiful.

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

When I started my own practice, I was criticized, not because I was doing product design but because, like Le Corbusier, I was insisting on paintings in all of my buildings. I would paint wall murals in the houses that I designed, just as he did in the '20s and '30s.

I paint and work as a sculptor, and I see architecture as an art… If you follow this approach you can use techniques to the service of man and to the service of an artistic idea, and beauty.

I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.

The architect is not only the director, but he is the composer. And, as a composer, the architect brings a sense of creativity to each building.

Belgrade is the ugliest city in the world in the most beautiful place in the world.

Beautiful buildings are more than scientific. They are true organisms, spiritually conceived; works of art, using the best technology by inspiration rather than the idiosyncrasies of mere taste or any averaging by the committee mind.

Architecture is crystallized music.

A beautiful dress can be as exciting as a poem.

When we come to understand architecture as the essential nature of all harmonious structure we will see that it is the architecture of music that inspired Bach and Beethoven, the architecture of painting that is inspiring Picasso as it inspired Velasquez, that it is the architecture of life itself that is the inspiration of the great poets and philosophers.

To the degree it is efficient, a spaceship is elegant and beautiful.

For something to be beautiful it doesn’t have to be pretty.

Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.

A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there's more there. Everything is more sensual, and one takes refuge in its beauty.

I must go to Nature disarmed of perspective and stretch myself like a large transparent canvas upon her in the hope that, my submission being perfect, the imprint of a beautiful and useful truth would be taken.

You do not reach the sublime by degrees; the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite.

The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing.

The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.

Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.

Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure.

Because we are saturated with life, because we are human, our strongest motive is life, humanity; and the stronger the motive back of the line the stronger, and therefore more beautiful, the line will be.