The room within is the great fact about the building.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTThe room within is the great fact about the building.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTThe mission of an architect is to help people understand how to make life more beautiful, the world a better one for living in, and to give reason, rhyme, and meaning to life.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTAn idea is inevitably a coordination. It is a coming together of something that is separate or disorganized or incomplete. With an idea you begin to feel into the nature of that incompleteness.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTI don’t know whether you are a saint or a fool said my lawyer. I replied Is there a difference?
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTThere is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTPhilip Johnson is a highbrow. A highbrow is a man educated beyond his capacity. His house is a box of glass — not shelter. The meaning of the word shelter includes privacy.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTAn expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTArt for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTThe only thing wrong with architecture is architects.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTA box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTBring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTLack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTEarly in my career, I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility… I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I’ve never been sorry.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTHarvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTImitate nothing except principle.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTMore and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.
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