Frank Lloyd
Frank Lloyd
Frank William George Lloydwas an American film director, scriptwriter and producer. He was among the founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and was its president from 1934-35...
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth2 February 1886
bars making-changes easier
It's easier to make changes with a pencil than a wrecking bar.
taken one-day world
The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of the world and remember, it will be a poet, not a scientist.
inspirational funny beautiful
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
sweet artist interesting
Less is only more where more is no good.
badass bad-ass architecture
All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
simple thinking artist
'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.
character artist light
Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.
integrity america grace
For America today organic architecture interprets (will eventually build) this local embodiment of human freedom. This natural architecture seeks spaciousness, grace and openness; lightness and strength so completely balanced and logical that it is a new integrity...
architect source higher
No stream rises higher than its source
art space architecture
Space is the breath of art.
new-york reflection night
At night... the streets become rhythmical perspectives of glowing dotted lines, reflections hung upon them in the streets as the wistaria hangs its violet racemes on its trellis. The buildings are shimmering verticality, a gossamer veil, a festive scene-prop hanging there against the black sky to dazzle, entertain, amaze.
work men thinking
An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.
business artist house
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
light building seems
More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.