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Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright
American Architect
Born: Jun 8, 1867
Died: Apr 9, 1959
Architect Architecture Great Life Man Will
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities. Frank Lloyd Wright
Life Me Will Luxuries Willingly Give Give Me Without Necessities
Space is the breath of art. Frank Lloyd Wright
Art Space Breath
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes. Frank Lloyd Wright
Life Beautiful Live More Longer Beautiful Life Becomes
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change. Frank Lloyd Wright
Life Change Arrogance Seen Humility No Reason Had Hypocritical Between Former Choose Reason Chose Early Honest
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art. Frank Lloyd Wright
Work Art Simplicity Value True Qualities True Value Repose Any Measure
The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope. Frank Lloyd Wright
Hope Tomorrow Yesterday Lies Shadow Divides Moving Ever Present
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. Frank Lloyd Wright
Art Soul Architecture Mother Own Our Civilization Without
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. Frank Lloyd Wright
Doctor Plant Mistakes Architect Only Advise Clients His Bury Vines
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union. Frank Lloyd Wright
Spiritual Has-Been Follows Joined Misunderstood Been Form Should Union Function
Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun. Frank Lloyd Wright
Too Earth Sun Buildings Children
TV is chewing gum for the eyes. Frank Lloyd Wright
Funny Eyes TV Gum Chewing Chewing Gum
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. Frank Lloyd Wright
Together Live Other Hill House Anything Happier Should Each Ever Belonging
Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. Frank Lloyd Wright
Time Mind Will Become Analysis Synthesis Habit Enable Get Your
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
Politics Government Freedom Democracy Man Free Rich Else Enslave Machine System Only Individual Individual Freedom Like Make Call Him America Expedient Just Poor Means
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings. Frank Lloyd Wright
Home Plant Physician First Mistakes Build Possible Architect Only Advise Client Buildings Go His As Far As Bury Far Should Vines
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
Time Day Great Age Architecture Poet Every Must Architect He His Original Necessarily Interpreter
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. Frank Lloyd Wright
You Believe Makes Always Happen Happens Really Belief Thing
No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built. Frank Lloyd Wright
Life Man Stream Build Reflect Neither Record Rises More Could Higher Never Had He Learned Buildings Built Were Nor Source Than Might Less Express Ever
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed. Frank Lloyd Wright
Art Philosophy Sake
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. Frank Lloyd Wright
Strength Character Light Organic Married Spiders Spinning Environment Lightness Qualified Buildings Native Bred Ground
An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site. Frank Lloyd Wright
Tools Architect Most Eraser Site Bar Board Useful Drafting
An idea is salvation by imagination. Frank Lloyd Wright
Imagination Idea Salvation
Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall. Frank Lloyd Wright
You Nail Like Dead Wall Bureaucrats Buried Custard Them
'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. Frank Lloyd Wright
Simple Old First Master Think Back Say Simplest Terms Principles Parts Reduce Getting Meaning Used Whole
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent. Frank Lloyd Wright
Great Money Power Greed Monument City New Rent York New York New York City Race
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. Frank Lloyd Wright
Business Build House Cathedral Chicken Just Regard Desirable
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