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
men differences quality
A vital difference between the professional man and a man of business is that money making to the professional man should, by virtue of his assumption, be incidental; to the businessman it is primary. Money has its limitations; while it may buy quantity, there is something beyond it and that is quality.
men garden tree
The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.
beautiful civilization america
A civilization is only a way of life. A culture is the way of making that way of life beautiful. So culture is your office here in America, and as no stream can rise higher than its source, so you can give no more or better to architecture than you are. So why not go to work on yourselves, to make yourselves, in quality, what you would have your buildings be?
crazy race cities
The outcome of the city will depend on the race between the automobile and the elevator, and anyone who bets on the elevator is crazy.
artist cities looks
To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.
sweet mistake home
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.
inspirational life motivational
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
people design building
I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
art doors light
You can't make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it.
reality space interesting
The space within becomes the reality of the building.
home simplicity may
The outside of any building may now come inside and the inside go outside, each seems as part of the other. Continuity, plasticity, and all the new simplicity the imply have at last come home.
schemes materials
Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.
inspiration essentials philosopher
When we come to understand architecture as the essential nature of all harmonious structure we will see that it is the architecture of music that inspired Bach and Beethoven, the architecture of painting that is inspiring Picasso as it inspired Velasquez, that it is the architecture of life itself that is the inspiration of the great poets and philosophers.
atheist thinking creative
The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you're an atheist, pretend how God would do it.