Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Frank Lloyd Wright on Wise Famous Quotes.
I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.
Humanity to me is not a mob. A mob is a degeneration of humanity. A mob is humanity going the wrong way.
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
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.
The tall modern office building is the machine pure and simple ... the engine, the motor and the battleship the works of the century.
From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn't fastened down slides into Southern California.
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.
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
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.
Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.
Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?
The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you're an atheist, pretend how God would do it.
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.
Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master's work of art. Individuality is sacred.
I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
Space. The continual becoming: invisible fountain from which all rhythms flow and to which they must pass. Beyond time or infinity
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.
and when others follow, as they will, move on.
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.
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.
'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.
Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use.
Consider everything in the nature of a hanging fixture a weakness, and naked radiators an abomination.
Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism ... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
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.
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.
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
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.