Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes

An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.

Form must have a content, and that content must be linked with nature.

Everything is together—spiritual and political.

Deep in the culture of Apple is this sense and understanding of design, developing, and making. Form and the material and process - they are beautifully intertwined - completely connected.

I try not to think of my life in terms of separation.

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.

You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.

There are myriads of forms and hundreds of grasses throughout the entire earth, yet each grass and each form itself is the entire earth.

From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars.

Nothing useless is, or low; Each thing in its place is best; And what seems but idle show Strengthens and supports the rest.

Only a system in which all parts flourish is holistic.

All things in this vast universe exist in you, with you, and for you.

The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.

Keep reminding yourself of the way things are connected, of great relatedness. All things are implicated in one another and in sympathy with each other. This event is the consequence of some other one. Things push and pull on each other, and breathe together, and are ONE.

With what you were talking about before. The world being broken. Maybe it isn't that we're supposed to find the pieces and put them back together. Maybe we're the pieces." Nick says. "Maybe," Nick says, "what we're supposed to do is come together. That's how we stop the breaking.

Child and serpent, star and stone — all one.

So when we spend all of our time trying to separate that which is already joined, it's a waste of time.

All things are in the Universe, and the universe is in all things: we in it, and it in us; in this way everything concurs in a perfect unity.

At first glance, the key and the lock it fits may seem very different," Sazed said. "Different in shape, different in function, different in design. The man who looks at them without knowledge of their true nature might think them opposites, for one is meant to open, and the other to keep closed. Yet, upon closer examination he might see that without one, the other becomes useless. The wise man then sees that both lock and key were created for the same purpose.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. One fancies a heart like our own must be beating in every crystal and cell, and we feel like stopping to speak to the plants and animals as friendly fellow-mountaineers. Nature as a poet, an enthusiastic workingman, becomes more and more visible the farther and higher we go.

He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.

All things are in all.

O lands! O all so dear to me - what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is.