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“The truth is more important than the facts.”

Frank Lloyd Wright

“Love is the virtue of the Heart,
Sincerity is the virtue of the Mind,
Decision is the virtue of the Will,
Courage is the virtue of the Spirit.”

Frank Lloyd Wright

“There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.”

Frank Lloyd Wright

Anonymous saying, dating back at least to its citation in Natural Theology (1836) by Thomas Chalmers, Bk. II, Ch. III : On the Strength of the Evidences for a God in the Phenomena of Visible and External Nature, § 15, where the author states: "It has been said that there is nothing more uncommon than common sense."; it has since become misattributed to particular people, including Frank Lloyd Wright.
Misattributed

“I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.”

Frank Lloyd Wright

“If it sells, it's art.”

Frank Lloyd Wright

“So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal.”

Frank Lloyd Wright

An Organic Architecture (1939)

“Clear out 800,000 people and preserve it as a museum piece.”

Frank Lloyd Wright

On Boston, The New York Times (27 November 1955)

“Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived.”

Frank Lloyd Wright

As quoted in An Organic Architecture (1970)

“I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist’s hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion.”

Frank Lloyd Wright

“Night Is but a Shadow Cast by the Sun”
The Living City (1958)

“The-Shadow-of-the-Wall–Primitive Instincts Still Alive”

Frank Lloyd Wright

The Living City (1958)

“I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city.”

Frank Lloyd Wright

Address at Evanston Illinois (8 August 1954)

“The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears — as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.”

Frank Lloyd Wright

“Earth”
The Living City (1958)

“Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.”

Frank Lloyd Wright

"In the Cause of Architecture", in The Architectural Record (March 1908)

“God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature and it has been said often by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And, I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.”

Frank Lloyd Wright

As quoted in Truth Against the World : Frank Lloyd Wright speaks for an organic architecture (1987) edited by Patrick J. Meehan <!-- p. 29 -->
Context: God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature and it has been said often by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And, 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.

“A free America, democratic in the sense that our forefathers intended it to be, means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call 'democracy' is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.”

Frank Lloyd Wright

The Future of Architecture (1953), p. 174

“New York is the biggest mouth in the world. It appears to be prime example of the herd instinct, leading the universal urban conspiracy to beguile man from his birthright (the good ground), to hang him by his eyebrows from skyhooks above hard pavement, to crucify him, sell him, or be sold by him.”

Frank Lloyd Wright

The Living City (1958)