Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

I call architecture frozen music.

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.

I love architecture.

Architecture is invention.

If you're lucky, and a building succeeds, the real product has many more dimensions than you can ever imagine. You have the sun, the light, the rain, the birds, the feel.

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

I always loved bulbs, and I use light a lot in my shows. In my office in Paris, I have 300 bulbs.

Light is something that can really change your perception of space.

Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me.

Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful.

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

There's a kind of beauty to a skyscraper.

Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation

Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light: light and shade reveal these forms.

Architecture is crystallized music.

Beauty isn't what I'm primarily interested in [in architecture]. I think appropriateness is more important.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset.

Fill a space in a beautiful way.

The ruins proclaim the building was beautiful.

There is one way that architecture is superior to sculpture, and that is scale. You can walk into a building and have it all around you.

It is a terrific thing to get a building built that has the qualities of greatness in it.

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.

The concept of architecture as analogous to landscape is something that has interested me for a long time.