Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes

• There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

• Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

• Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.

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• Well, now that he’s finished one building, he’ll go write four books about it.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

• 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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• The space within becomes the reality of the building.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

• The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

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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

• The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

• The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.

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• The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

• 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

• 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.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

• Space is the breath of art.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

• Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

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• Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.

  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

• Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.

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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

• 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.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright (69)

Birth:	8th June, 1867
Death:	9th April, 1959
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Architect

About

Frank Lloyd Wright was born in Richland Center, Wisconsin, USA. He was an American architect, interior designer, writer, and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures, 532 of which were completed. He believed in designing structures that were in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture. His work includes original and innovative examples of many building types, including offices, churches, schools, skyscrapers, hotels, and museums. He wrote 20 books and many articles and was a popular lecturer in the United States and in Europe. His Selected edifices include: Larkin Administration Building, Imperial Hotel Toyko, Fallingwater, and Guggenheim Museum.

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