Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

"Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity."
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"Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity."
Frank Lloyd Wright
"The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization."
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
"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
"Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual."
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
"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
"The space within becomes the reality of the building."
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Space is the breath of art."
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you."
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now."
Frank Lloyd Wright
"The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope."
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral."
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Television is chewing gum for the eyes."
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 know the price of success: dedication hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen."
Frank Lloyd Wright
"I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up."
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Remy de Gourmont An idea is salvation by imagination."
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly but take every building to pieces and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the curious from the beautiful. Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. 'Think simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms getting back to first principles."
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them."
Frank Lloyd Wright
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