Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes

• New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed… a race for rent.

  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

• Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

• 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.

  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

• Less is only more where more is no good.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

• 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

• I feel coming on a strange disease – humility.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

• I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

• Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

• 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

• Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

• Freedom is from within.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

• Form follows function – that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

• Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

• Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can’t nail them to a wall.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

• Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

• All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

• 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.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

• 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.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

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Frank Lloyd Wright (69)

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

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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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