The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTThe mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTIf you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTA box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTNature is the inspiration for all ornamentation.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTWe have no longer an outside and an inside as two separate things. Now the outside may come inside and the inside may and does go outside. They are of each other. Form and function thus become one in design and execution if the nature of materials and method and purpose are all in unison.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTIf it sells, it’s art.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTWe create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTThe heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTBureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can’t nail them to a wall.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTHarvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTAn idea is salvation by imagination.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTA professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTEarly 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 WRIGHTAn expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTAn architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.
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.
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