Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes

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  The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Topics in Beauty, Life

  Tags in Live, Longer

• I know we can’t have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Topics in Uncategorized

• Architecture is man’s great sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as its source because great art is great life.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Topics in Uncategorized

• Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Philosophy

• Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People
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  I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Topics in Art, God, Inspirational, Nature

  Tags in Believe, Atheism

• Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Remy de Gourmont An idea is salvation by imagination.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Topics in Art, Inspirational

  Tags in Ideas

• The truth is more important than the facts.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Topics in Truth

• Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in California, City

• Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Architecture, Architect

• No house should ever be on a hill, or on anything. It should be of the hill. Hill and house should live together, each the happier for the other.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Architecture, Architect

• Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly, but take every building to pieces, and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the curious from the beautiful. Get the habit of analysis – analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. ‘Think simples’ as my old master used to say – meaning to reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Architecture, Architect

• A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Architecture, Architect

• The heart is the first feature of working minds.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Topics in Emotion

  Tags in Heart, Reason, Mind

• Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Regard, Cathedral, Desirable, Chicken, Build, House, Just

• Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Sake, Philosophy

• Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Humility, Arrogance

• Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Liberty, Acceptance
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  You have to go whole heartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Worth, Achieve

• I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Topics in Success, Work

  Tags in Persistence

Frank Lloyd Wright (69)

Birth:	8th June, 1867
Death:	9th April, 1959
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Architect

About

Frank Lloyd Wright was born in Richland Center, Wisconsin, USA. He was an American architect, interior designer, writer, and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures, 532 of which were completed. He believed in designing structures that were in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture. His work includes original and innovative examples of many building types, including offices, churches, schools, skyscrapers, hotels, and museums. He wrote 20 books and many articles and was a popular lecturer in the United States and in Europe. His Selected edifices include: Larkin Administration Building, Imperial Hotel Toyko, Fallingwater, and Guggenheim Museum.

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