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
should-have eyebrows tools
We should have a system of economics that is structure that is organic tools. We do not have it. We are all hanging by our eyebrows from skyhooks economically, just as we are architecturally.
ifs
We do not learn so much by our successes as we learn by failures - our own and others! Especially if we see the failures properly corrected.
country california sides
They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.
beauty beautiful ugly
Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly.
inspiration coffins spirit
A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.
encouragement real self
Self fulfilling prophecies do exist in real life
nature fighting democracy
We've been fighting from the beginning for organic architecture. That is, architecture where the whole is to the part as the part is to the whole, and where the nature of materials, the nature of the purpose, the nature of the entire performance becomes a necessity-architecture of democracy.
science men giving
Science can give us only the tools in the box, these mechanical miracles that it has already given us. But of what use to us are miraculous tools until we have mastered the humane, cultural use of them? We do not want to live in a world where the machine has mastered the man; we want to live in a world where man has mastered the machine.
two design doe
We have no longer an outside and an inside as two separate things. Now the outside may come inside and the inside may and does go outside. They are of each other. Form and function thus become one in design and execution if the nature of materials and method and purpose are all in unison.
messages materials
Each material has its own message.
travel new-york home
Boston: Clear out eight hundred thousand people and preserve it as a museum piece. New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.
new-york soap towers
Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey.
cutting half painting
If the paintings are too large, cut them in half!
men architecture spirit
Architecture is essentially Human; it is the Human spirit manifesting itself. For when a Man builds, there, you've got him; you know exactly what, who and how that Man is.