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The more humane, the more rich and significant, inviting, and charming your architecture becomes, the more truly is it the great basis of a true culture. Unless it is true architecture in this sense, the less it’s architecture at all.
–Frank Lloyd Wright

A work may have the delicacies of a rare orchid or the staunch fortitude of the oak and still be simple. A thing to be simple needs only to be true to itself in organic sense.
–Frannk Lloyd Wright

Where forest and stream and rock and all the elements of structure are combined so quietly that really you listen not to any noise whatsoever although the music of the stream is there. But you listen to Fallingwater the way you listen to the quiet of the country
–Frank Lloyd Wright

Whenever I would go to Chicago to keep track of my work I would take time somehow to go out to Oak Park. I would go there after dark, not wishing to be seen. Go to reassure myself that all was going well there too — with the children.
–Frank Lloyd Wright

What is style? Every flower has it; every animal has it; every individual worthy the name has it in some degree, no matter how much sandpaper may have done for him. … This quality of style is a subtle thing, and should remain so, and not to be defined in itself so much as to be regarded as a result of artistic integrity.
–Frank Lloyd Wright

Taliesin! Three times built, twice destroyed, yet a place of great repose. When I am away from it, like some rubber band stretched out but ready to snap back immediately the pull is relaxed or released, I get back to it happy to be there again.
–Frank Lloyd Wright

My father was a musician and a preacher. He taught me to see a great symphony as an edifice, an edifice of sound, you see. So when I listen to Beethoven, who is the greatest architect who ever lived, I never fail to see buildings.
–Frank Lloyd Wright

Our architecture reflects truly as a mirror
–Louis Sullivan

The architect who combines in his being the powers of vision, of imagination, of intellect, of sympathy with human need and the power to interpret them in a language vernacular and time— is he who shall create poems in stone
–Louis Sullivan

I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see. If we wish to know the truth concerning anything, we’ll find it in the nature of that thing.
–Frank Lloyd Wright

It is inconceivable that any plans for a home might have pleased us more than those you have submitted … A house such as you have envisioned so closely approaches the ultimate that we wonder whether we dare dream that it might some day come to final fruition.
I. N. Hagan in a letter to Frank Lloyd Wright

Today’s Link: Malcolm Willey House The best Frank Lloyd Wright house website, and just maybe, the best website on any topic whatwoever.

I wished to be part of my beloved southern Wisconsin, too. I did not want to put my small part of it out of countenance.
–Frank Lloyd Wright