The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
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Quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright
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Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.
Freedom is from within.
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.
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.
Less is only more where more is no good.
Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.
Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
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