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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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