Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wrightwas an American architect, interior designer, writer, and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures, 532 of which were completed. Wright believed in designing structures that were in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture. This philosophy was best exemplified by Fallingwater, which has been called "the best all-time work of American architecture". Wright was a leader of the Prairie School movement of architecture and developed the concept of the Usonian home, his...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArchitect
Date of Birth8 June 1867
CityRichland Center, WI
CountryUnited States of America
I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.
If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.
Imitate nothing except principle.
Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master's work of art. Individuality is sacred.
The room within is the great fact about the building.
Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
Freedom is from within.
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.
The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
The measure of a man's culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.
Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
Our forefathers were not only brave. I believe they were right. I believe that what they meant was that every man born had equal right to grow from scratch by way of his own power unhindered to the highest expression of himself possible to him.