Frank Lloyd Wright quotes Born: 06/08/1867 Died: 04/09/1959 Country: usa

• 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. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
• 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. (Frank Lloyd Wright) [look/look]
• An idea is salvation by imagination. (Frank Lloyd Wright) [salvation/imagination]
• I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up. (Frank Lloyd Wright) [intellectuals/top]
• The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life. (Frank Lloyd Wright) [more/life/beauty/willpower]
• The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope. (Frank Lloyd Wright) [present/shadow/]
• The truth is more important than the facts. (Frank Lloyd Wright) [truth/more/facts]
• TV -- chewing gum for the eyes. (Frank Lloyd Wright) [eyes]
• Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them. (Frank Lloyd Wright) [walls/more]
• All fine architectural values are human vales, else not valuable. (Frank Lloyd Wright) [human]
• A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
• Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasions to change. (Frank Lloyd Wright) [life/vanity/humility/vanity]
• The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
• Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances. (Frank Lloyd Wright) [youth/quality/matter]
• A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
• A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
• A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
• A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
• All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
• An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
• Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
• Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
• Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
• Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
• Freedom is from within. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
• Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
• Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
• 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. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
• Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
• I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
• I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it (Frank Lloyd Wright)

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