34 quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright

“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

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“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

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“An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

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“The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

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“Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

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“Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

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“Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

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“Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

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“Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

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“Space is the breath of art.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

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“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

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“Mechanization best serves mediocrity.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

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“Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

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“Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

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“Freedom is from within.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

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“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

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“TV is chewing gum for the eyes.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

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“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

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“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

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“Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

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“Less is only more where more is no good.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

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“A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

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“Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

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“The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

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“The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

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