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
moving ears architecture
When I see architecture that moves me, I hear music in my inner ear
men soul vision
It is where life is fundamental and free that men develop the vision needed to reveal the human soul in the blossoms it puts forth.
spiritual struggle mean
As we live and as we are, Simplicity - with a capital "S" - is difficult to comprehend nowadays. We are no longer truly simple. We no longer live in simple terms or places. Life is a more complex struggle now. It is now valiant to be simple: a courageous thing to even want to be simple. It is a spiritual thing to comprehend what simplicity means.
government architecture results
Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.
knowledge thinking common-sense
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
teaching past simple
So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal and the teaching so much needed if we are to see the whole of life, and to now serve the whole of life, holding no traditions essential to the great TRADITION. Nor cherishing any preconceived form fixing upon us either past, present or future, but-instead-exalting the simple laws of common sense-or of super-sense if you prefer-determining form by way of the nature of materials...
art philosophy sake
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
opportunity dining artistic
Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.
witty badass mistake
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
simplicity educated has-beens
To know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how, ah, that is to have been educated in knowledge of simplicity.
believe add littles
I do not believe in adding enrichment merely for the sake of enrichment. Unless it adds clearness to the enunciation of the theme, it is undesirable, for it is very little understood.
arrogance honest modesty
I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.
wall artist vaccines
Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.
artist perfectly-good cynical
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.