A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTA building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTMan 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 WRIGHTA doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advice his clients to plant vines.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTWood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.
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 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 WRIGHTYou can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTThe mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTGood taste is not a substitute for knowledge.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTThe longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTGive me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTBring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTYou will find Goodness and Truth everywhere you go. If you have to choose, choose Truth. For that is closest to Earth. Keep close to the Earth, in that lies strength. Simplicity of heart is just as necessary for an architect as for a farmer or a minister if the architect is going to build great buildings.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTThe thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTOne war only breeds another.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTBuilding becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful, to put concordance, sympathy with nature, and all that into it. Then you have architecture.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT