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Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age. — Frank Lloyd Wright
No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other. — Frank Lloyd Wright
What I wanted was some dreamlike Frank Lloyd Wright bungalow where we could sit on the veranda forever and it would always be twilight in the temperate zones, in the most beautiful house. — William Kittredge
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
I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright. — Philip Johnson
If you tilt the whole country sideways, Los Angeles is the place where everything loose will fall. — Frank Lloyd Wright
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. — Frank Lloyd Wright
I grew up in a time when Eames and Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright and other architects were putting their furniture and objects on the market. You could buy some of those objects on the open market. Eames was a huge influence on all of us in school. — Michael Graves
True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building, or a park. At its best it is an emphasis of structure, a realization in graceful terms of the nature of that which is ornamented — Frank Lloyd Wright
Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Youth is not an age thing. It's a quality. Once you've had it, you never lose it. — Frank Lloyd Wright
"I don't know whether you are a saint or a fool" said my lawyer. I replied "Is there a difference?" — Frank Lloyd Wright
You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having. — Frank Lloyd Wright
When I received my first paycheck from my now known day job, I spent it on a period Craftsman chair and a Frank Lloyd Wright-wannabe lamp. With my second paycheck, I bought a stereo. — Brad Pitt
Dodger Stadium is not an antique. It's not Frank Lloyd Wright. It's a nice place to play baseball, but there are far better. — Alan Casden
My grandfather Frank Lloyd Wright wore a red sash on his wedding night. That is glamour! — Anne Baxter
They say this was built by Frank Lloyd Wright's evil twin," said Wednesday. "Frank Lloyd Wrong. — Neil Gaiman
Less is more only when more is too much. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Early in my career ... I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility ... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been sorry. — Frank Lloyd Wright
I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity. — Frank Lloyd Wright
As I went through 'This Progress,' one of two performance pieces by Tino Sehgal that transform Frank Lloyd Wright's emptied-out spiral into a dreamy Socratic-purgatorial journey, the museum literally fell away. I was suspended in some weird nonspace. — Jerry Saltz
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use. — Frank Lloyd Wright
We are all affected by Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, and Mies van der Rohe. But no less than Bramante, Borromini, and Bernini. Architecture is a tradition, a long continuum. Whether we break with tradition or enhance it, we are still connected to that past. We evolve. — Richard Meier
A free America ... 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
Now a work of art is a work of nature, but it is a work of human nature. It is a work of the mind: and it's a work of the mind in circumstances for an occasion which, to which, for which, and which it may be supremely natural and simple and effective.
"The Nature of Art" December 19, 1954 — Frank Lloyd Wright
The sense of space within the reality of any building is a new concept wherever architecture is concerned. But it is essential ancient principle just the same and is not only necessary now but implied by the ideal of democracy itself. — Frank Lloyd Wright
A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. — Frank Lloyd Wright
We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional. — Frank Lloyd Wright
To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor. — Frank Lloyd Wright
The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Falling Waters, Frank Lloyd Wright's — Martha Milot
Consider everything in the nature of a hanging fixture a weakness, and naked radiators an abomination. — Frank Lloyd Wright
To know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how, ah, that is to have been educated in knowledge of simplicity. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground. — Frank Lloyd Wright
The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it. — Frank Lloyd Wright
The tall modern office building is the machine pure and simple ... the engine, the motor and the battleship the works of the century. — Frank Lloyd Wright
The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of the world and remember, it will be a poet, not a scientist. — Frank Lloyd Wright
If for no other reason, Frank Lloyd Wright would be justly famous for Fallingwater, one of the most extraordinary houses in the world. This biography of a house is also a celebration of the creative minds who envisioned it and provides all the reasons, if any are needed, why Fallingwater should be cherished as a national monument. Franklin Toker has performed an invaluable service. — Meryle Secrest
You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy. — Frank Lloyd Wright
When anyone becomes an authority, that is the end of him as far as development is concerned. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Doctors bury their mistakes, Architects cover them with ivy — Frank Lloyd Wright
San Francisco is the only city I can think of that can survive all the things you people are doing to it and still look beautiful. — Frank Lloyd Wright
I know we can't have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials. — Frank Lloyd Wright
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
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Humanity to me is not a mob. A mob is a degeneration of humanity. A mob is humanity going the wrong way. — Frank Lloyd Wright
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed ... a race for rent. — Frank Lloyd Wright
I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old. — Frank Lloyd Wright
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
TV is chewing gum for the eyes. — Frank Lloyd Wright
All the more I study Nature do I revere God, because Nature is all the body of God we will ever know. — Frank Lloyd Wright
The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built. — Frank Lloyd Wright
My affection for CinemaScope initially was my affection for the horizontal line as I learned it from having been apprenticed to an architect who was someone named Frank Lloyd Wright. — Nicholas Ray
The best thing to do is go as far out as you can get ... what you regard as 'too far'
and when others follow, as they will, move on. — Frank Lloyd Wright
There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s, and one of his most famous buildings, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, was completed just before his death. Wright buildings look like Wright buildings - that is their paradox. — Jane Smiley
Architectural features of true democratic ground-freedom would rise naturally from topography, which means that buildings would all take on the nature and character of the ground on which in endless variety they would stand and be component part. — Frank Lloyd Wright
If the paintings are too large, cut them in half! — Frank Lloyd Wright
Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use the word order. — Frank Lloyd Wright
The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Boston: Clear out eight hundred thousand people and preserve it as a museum piece. New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it. — 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
On this simple unit-system [of building blocks] ruled on the low table-top all these forms were combined by the child into imaginative patter. Design was recreation! ... The virtue of all this lay in the awakening of the childmind to rhythmic structure in Nature - giving the child a sense of innate cause-and-effect otherwise far beyond child-comprehension. — Frank Lloyd Wright
The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest. — Frank Lloyd Wright
More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Love of an idea is the love of God. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. — Frank Lloyd Wright
As we live and as we are, Simplicity - with a capital "S" - is difficult to comprehend nowadays. We are no longer truly simple. We no longer live in simple terms or places. Life is a more complex struggle now. It is now valiant to be simple: a courageous thing to even want to be simple. It is a spiritual thing to comprehend what simplicity means. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master's work of art. Individuality is sacred. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. — Frank Lloyd Wright
It is a terrific thing to get a building built that has the qualities of greatness in it. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Television is bubble-gum for the mind — Frank Lloyd Wright
A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working. — Frank Lloyd Wright
What I like best about San Francisco is San Francisco. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation — Frank Lloyd Wright
Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. — Frank Lloyd Wright
We do not learn so much by our successes as we learn by failures - our own and others! Especially if we see the failures properly corrected. — Frank Lloyd Wright
If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it. — Frank Lloyd Wright
The cultural influences in our country are like the floo floo bird. I am referring to the peculiar and especial bird who always flew backward. To keep the wind out of its eyes? No. Just because it didn't give a darn where it was going, but just had to see where it had been. — Frank Lloyd Wright
I think a lot of people have the Frank Lloyd Wright model in their brains. The architect comes in with this act of creation and lays it down, and that's it. But that's not me. — Thom Mayne
The outcome of the city will depend on the race between the automobile and the elevator, and anyone who bets on the elevator is crazy. — Frank Lloyd Wright
A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward. — Frank Lloyd Wright
God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said 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
Television is chewing gum for the eyes. — Frank Lloyd Wright
The only thing wrong with architecture is architects. — Frank Lloyd Wright
The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty. — Frank Lloyd Wright
We've been fighting from the beginning for organic architecture. That is, architecture where the whole is to the part as the part is to the whole, and where the nature of materials, the nature of the purpose, the nature of the entire performance becomes a necessity-architecture of democracy. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Imitate nothing except principle. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Wright is an interesting study of a superstar architect having both right and wrong influence. "All Architecture, worthy the name," he decreed in 1910, "will, henceforward, more and more be organic."12 So inspired by Viollet-le-Duc and Louis Sullivan, he inspired countless others (including young me) toward an organic approach to architecture. At the same time, the very pomposity of his decrees helped inflame a fatal egotism in generations of architects, and his most famous buildings belie his organic ideal. They were so totally designed - down to the screwheads all being aligned horizontally to match his prairie line - that they cannot be changed. To live in one of his houses is to be the curator of a Frank Lloyd Wright museum; — Stewart Brand
In the early work of Frank Lloyd Wright - and you can also see it with Mies - they make new ground by raising the ground. Frank Lloyd Wright did it so beautifully with the Robie House. The roof becomes almost a new ground. — Ben Van Berkel
It is where life is fundamental and free that men develop the vision needed to reveal the human soul in the blossoms it puts forth. — Frank Lloyd Wright