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
house soul prison
Prison house for the soul
humanity way degeneration
Humanity to me is not a mob. A mob is a degeneration of humanity. A mob is humanity going the wrong way.
san-francisco
What I like best about San Francisco is San Francisco.
humility disease architecture
I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.
love song heart
The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears - as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.
beautiful thinking cities
San Francisco is the only city I can think of that can survive all the things you people are doing to it and still look beautiful.
greatness quality building
It is a terrific thing to get a building built that has the qualities of greatness in it.
falling-water architecture poet
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet.
quality youth young
To me, young has no meaning. It's something you can do nothing about, nothing at all. But youth is a quality. And if you have it, you never lose it.
principles building architect
I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
growing-up heart opportunity
The dynamic ideal we call democracy, gradually growing up in the human heart for two-thousand five hundred years, at least, has now every opportunity to found the natural democratic state in these United States of America by way of natural economic order and a natural, or organic, architecture.
too-much less-is-more
Less is more only when more is too much.
taste substitutes good-taste
Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge
differences fool saint
"I don't know whether you are a saint or a fool" said my lawyer. I replied "Is there a difference?"