Top 100 Quotes About Frank Lloyd Wright
#1. 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
#2. My grandfather Frank Lloyd Wright wore a red sash on his wedding night. That is glamour!
Anne Baxter
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. They say this was built by Frank Lloyd Wright's evil twin," said Wednesday. "Frank Lloyd Wrong.
Neil Gaiman
#6. 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
#7. 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
#9. 'Loving Frank' is about a forbidden love affair between two people who lived a hundred years ago - Frank Lloyd Wright and his married client, Mamah Borthwick Cheney. The affair set off a colossal newspaper scandal when the lovers ran off to Europe together.
Nancy Horan
#10. And I loved Frank Lloyd Wright. I think he was the greatest man I have ever met in my life.
Anthony Quinn
#11. 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
#12. Frank Lloyd Wright made houses right up until the end. I think that's important because it gives you a direct connection to all the basic aspects of architecture - the spatial energy of the place, the construction, the materials, the site, the detail.
Steven Holl
#13. A turning point in the public's perception of the building art came with the publication of Frank Lloyd Wright's 'An Autobiography' of 1932, a picaresque narrative that captivated many who hadn't the slightest inkling of what architects actually did.
Martin Filler
#14. Frank Lloyd Wright ... his things were beautiful but not very functional.
David Byrne
#15. I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.
Philip Johnson
#16. 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
#17. I believe in God, only I spell it Nature." Frank Lloyd Wright
Andrea Perron
#18. The real junk food is what Frank Lloyd Wright called light entertainment - bubblegum for the eye ...
John Geddes
#19. 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
#20. When we choose a man to beautify our towns, we do not automatically call on the major artists of the world ... We now lavishly praise Frank Lloyd Wright, but we never made any community use of him, though he longed for the chance.
Paul Goodman
#21. 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
#22. The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you're an atheist, pretend how God would do it.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#23. If capitalism is fair then unionism must be. If men and women have a right to capitalize their ideas and the resources of their country, then that implies the right of men and women to capitalize their labor.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#24. You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#25. An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.
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#26. Wherever human life is concerned, the unnatural stricture of excessive verticality cannot stand against more natural horizontality.
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#27. 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.
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#29. 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
#30. The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas.
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#31. The dynamic ideal we call democracy, gradually growing up in the human heart for two-thousand five hundred years, at least, has now every opportunity to found the natural democratic state in these United States of America by way of natural economic order and a natural, or organic, architecture.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#32. The measure of its nobility and its continuity is its depth of feeling and its sincerity. And if it has that quality, it stands.
"Toward a New architecture" July 14, 1957
Frank Lloyd Wright
#34. 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
#35. Nature is my manifestation of God.
I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#36. A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#37. "I don't know whether you are a saint or a fool" said my lawyer. I replied "Is there a difference?"
Frank Lloyd Wright
#38. Architecture isman'sgreat sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as its source because great art isgreat life.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#39. I do not believe in adding enrichment merely for the sake of enrichment. Unless it adds clearness to the enunciation of the theme, it is undesirable, for it is very little understood.
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#41. Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly.
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#42. Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
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#43. 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.
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#44. You can't make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it.
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#45. 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.
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#46. When anyone becomes an authority, that is the end of him as far as development is concerned.
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#47. We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.
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#48. New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed ... a race for rent.
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#49. Space. The continual becoming: invisible fountain from which all rhythms flow and to which they must pass. Beyond time or infinity
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#52. Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
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#53. No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.
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#54. I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.
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#56. 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.
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#62. 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
#63. If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
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#64. Entering into the spirit of this interior, you will discover the best possible atmosphere in which to show fine paintings or listen to music. It is this atmosphere that seems to me most lacking in our art galleries, museums, music halls and theaters.
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#65. 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.
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#66. The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.
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#69. Beautiful buildings are more than scientific. They are true organisms, spiritually conceived; works of art, using the best technology by inspiration rather than the idiosyncrasies of mere taste or any averaging by the committee mind.
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#70. Youth is not an age thing. It's a quality. Once you've had it, you never lose it.
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#71. The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
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#72. All I learned from Eliel Saarinen was how to make out an expense account
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#73. The architect must be a prophet ... a prophet in the true sense of the term ... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.
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#74. I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
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#75. Give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.
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#76. 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.
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#77. It is a terrific thing to get a building built that has the qualities of greatness in it.
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#78. Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
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#79. Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
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#80. We boast the highest standard of living when it's only the biggest.
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#82. Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?
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#83. Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
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#85. Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.
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#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#89. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
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#91. Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
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#92. The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
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#93. 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
#94. Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#95. Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#96. A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#97. 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
#98. Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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