Frank Lloyd Wright quotes - page 6

Success was misunderstood as essential to progress. Really success was worse than failure. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
Different were the prophets of the human soul. View quote
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But soon this saving virtue appeared to me in our disgraceful dilemma: Realization that any true cultural significance our American free society could know lay in the proper use of the machine as a tool and used only as a tool. View quote
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Everywhere these inventions of science by ignorant misuse of a new technique were wiping out the artist. View quote
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To survive, our American art was cheating itself of life. View quote
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So the poet in the engineer and the engineer in the poet and both in the architect may be seen here working together, lifelong. View quote
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Philosophy is to the mind of the architect as eyesight is to his steps. The term "genius" when applied to him simply means a man who understands what others only know about. View quote
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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. View quote
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Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art. View quote
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An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site. View quote
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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)
A free America, democratic in the sense that our forefathers intended it to be, 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. View quote
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The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes. View quote
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"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. View quote
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I'm no teacher. Never wanted to teach and don't believe in teaching an art. Science yes, business of course..but an art cannot be taught. You can only inculcate it, you can be an exemplar, you can create an atmosphere in which it can grow. View quote
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We should learn from the snail it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional. View quote
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I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up. View quote
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Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy. View quote
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They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California. View quote
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If you tilt the whole country sideways, Los Angeles is the place where everything loose will fall. View quote
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The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
We should have a system of economics that is structure, that is organic tools. We do not have it. We are all hanging by our eyebrows from skyhooks economically, just as we are architecturally. View quote
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Think globally, act locally. View quote
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Respect should be earned by actions, and not acquired by years. View quote
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Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. View quote
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