Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes

Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created.

Harmony is when the sum is greater than the parts. A happy exaggeration.

Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.

My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'

'Form follows function' comes with so much baggage. It's a worthless phrase because you'll never take it for what it means.

I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic - you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the furniture, the fabric, etc. But I think design is all-encompassing.

And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.

Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.

Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.

To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body - both go together, they can't be separated.

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

Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.

Every team requires unity. A team has to move as one unit, one force, with each person understanding and assisting the roles of his teammates. If the team doesn't do this, whatever the reason, it goes down in defeat. You win or lose as a team, as a family.

And watch two men washing clothes, one makes dry clothes wet. The other makes wet clothes dry. they seem to be thwarting each other, but their work is a perfect harmony. Every holy person seems to have a different doctrine and practice, but there's really only one work.

The word design is everything and nothing. The design and the product itself are inseparable.

Whatever I design, it has to please my eye. If I go to work on an office block, I'll draw the office that I want to walk into. If it's a piece of crystal, it must feel the way I want it to feel in my hand. If it's women's wear, it must be something I'd like to see my wife dressed in.

In an arch each single stone which, if severed from the rest, would be perhaps defenceless is sufficiently secured by the solidity and entireness of the whole fabric, of which it is a part.

If you don't have both of them working together in a complementary, cohesive way, you're not going to be successful.

...they were exactly what the other needed; the missing piece that made everything else magically click into place.

You don t get the breaks unless you play with the team instead of against it.

Friendship is the union of spirits.

The sage has the sun and moon by his side and the universe under his arm. He blends everything into a harmonious whole. . . . He blends the disparities of ten thousand years into one complete purity. All things are blended like this and mutually involve each other.

Each element of the cosmos is positively woven from all the others...The universe holds together, and only one way of considering it is really possible, that is, to take it as a whole, in one piece.

Things which of themselves avail nothing, when united become powerful.