Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.

Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.

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

Well-building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight.

In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.

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.

The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical.

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

Many of the familiar little things that we use every day have typically evolved over a period of time to a state of familiarity. They balance form and function, elegance and economy, success and failure in ways that are not only acceptable, but also admirable.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

When I design a building, I'm making sure you and I can get to the front door, there's enough of a threshold for entry, and that the rooms are in a logical sequence.

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

We need to rediscover the essence of the meaning of 'the use.' Architecture is, above all, here for a better living. Every gesture, every shape must be justified by various reasons that would reinforce their reason to be, their use, and will give more sense to their beauty.

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

Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.

I think that the point of being an architect is to help raise the experience of everyday living, even a little. Putting a window where people would really like one. Making sure a shaving mirror in a hotel bathroom is at the right angle. Making bureaucratic buildings that are somehow cheerful.

Any item in your wardrobe should satisfy one of two criteria: utility and joy.

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

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!

More than trends, consumers need functionality. Everything needs an element of fashion, but that's more like a spice.