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
No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.
No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.
The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.
Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?
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.
Beautiful buildings are more than scientific. They are true organisms, spiritually conceived; works of art, using the best technology by inspiration rather than the idiosyncrasies of mere taste or any averaging by the committee mind.
Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.
Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist's hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion.
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.
Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.