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Frank Lloyd Wright [1867-1959] American

Frank Lloyd Wright was an American architect, interior designer, writer, and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures, 532 of which were completed.

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Quote	Tags	Rank
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.	Age, Architecture, Great, Time	101
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.	Business	102
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.	Change, Life	103
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.		104
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.	Architecture, Art	105
Mechanization best serves mediocrity.	Best, Technology	106
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.	Strength	107
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.	Beauty	108
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.	Life	109
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.	God, Nature	110
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.	Art	111
An idea is salvation by imagination.	Imagination	112
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.		113
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.	Learning, Nature	114
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.	Architecture	115
Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.		116
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.		117
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.	Art, Work	118
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.		119
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.		120
Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.	Great	121
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.	God, Great, Nature	122
All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.		123
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.		124
Less is only more where more is no good.	Good	125
The truth is more important than the facts.	Truth	126
Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.	Respect	201
Space is the breath of art.	Art, Design, Space	202
I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.		203
Television is chewing gum for the eyes.	Movies	204
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.		205
Freedom is from within.	Freedom	206
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.	Freedom, Government, Politics	207
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.	Funny	208
Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.		209
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.		210
The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.	Hope	211
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.	Technology	212
An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.		213
The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.		214
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.	Architecture, Government	215
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.	Brainy	216
The space within becomes the reality of the building.	Design, Space	217
Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.		218
'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.		219
Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.		220
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.	Architecture	221
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.		222
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.		223
Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.		224
The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.		225
Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.	Strength	226
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.		301
A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.		302
I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.		303
I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.		304
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.		305
Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.		306
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.		307
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.		308
Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.		309

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