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
stupid drinking beer
A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
art age machines
Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?
character understanding use
How many understand that Nature is the essential character of whatever is. It's something you'll find by looking not at, but in, always in. It's always inside the thing, and it makes the outside. And some day, when you get sufficiently proficient in understanding the use of the term, you can tell by the outside pretty much from what's inside.
nature motherhood artist
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.
development authority ends
When anyone becomes an authority, that is the end of him as far as development is concerned.
ignorance matter taste
Taste is a matter of ignorance. If you know what you are tasting, you don't have to taste.
weakness naked fixture
Consider everything in the nature of a hanging fixture a weakness, and naked radiators an abomination.
reality space democracy
The sense of space within the reality of any building is a new concept wherever architecture is concerned. But it is essential ancient principle just the same and is not only necessary now but implied by the ideal of democracy itself.
life-is natural human-life
Wherever human life is concerned, the unnatural stricture of excessive verticality cannot stand against more natural horizontality.
beautiful art inspiration
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.
moving things-to-do best-things
The best thing to do is go as far out as you can get... what you regard as 'too far' - and when others follow, as they will, move on
house hills should
No house should ever be on any hill... It should be of the hill.
respect men artist
Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.
book eye heart
Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title. - Virginia Woolf, from Jacob's Room Television is chewing gum for the eyes.