An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTAn architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTAs we work along our various ways, there takes shape within us, in some sort, an ideal – something we are to become – some work to be done. This, I think, is denied to very few, and we begin really to live only when the thrill of this ideality moves us in what we will to accomplish.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTMore and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTOne war only breeds another.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTArt for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTA professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.
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 prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTBring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTImitate nothing except principle.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTThe mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
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 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 WRIGHTNow a work of art is a work of nature, but it is a work of human nature. It is a work of the mind: and it’s a work of the mind in circumstances for an occasion which, to which, for which, and which it may be supremely natural and simple and effective.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTLove is the greatest virtue of the heart.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTThe heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
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