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
Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
To know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how, ah, that is to have been educated in knowledge of simplicity.
I do not believe in adding enrichment merely for the sake of enrichment. Unless it adds clearness to the enunciation of the theme, it is undesirable, for it is very little understood.
I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.
Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
Architecture is for the young. If our teenagers don't get architecture - if they are not inspired, (then) we won't have the architecture that we must have if this country is going to be beautiful.
Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.
Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.
Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been sorry.