Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes

• I know we can’t have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord.

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• Architecture is man’s great 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 is great life.

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• Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust.

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• Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.

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• You have to go whole heartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.

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

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• 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.

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• 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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• There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

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• The truth is more important than the facts.

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• The space within becomes the reality of the building.

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• 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.

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

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• The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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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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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