Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

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• I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

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• TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

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• An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

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• Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

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• I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.

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• Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Remy de Gourmont An idea is salvation by imagination.

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• A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

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• Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly, but take every building to pieces, and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the curious from the beautiful. Get the habit of analysis – analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. ‘Think simples’ as my old master used to say – meaning to reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

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• No house should ever be on a hill, or on anything. It should be of the hill. Hill and house should live together, each the happier for the other.

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• Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.

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• A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn’t afterward.

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• Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

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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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