“Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.”
Life
“Less is only more where more is no good.”
GoodAll Quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright
“Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.”
Architecture“Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.”
Strength“Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.”
Art“Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.”
Art“Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.”
Business“Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.”
Great“Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.”
Respect“Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.”
Age“The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.”
Architecture“The truth is more important than the facts.”
Truth“An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.”
Architecture“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”
Learning“Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.”
Architecture“A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.”
Age“The architect should strive continually to simplify the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.”
Beauty“Freedom is from within.”
Freedom“A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.”
Freedom“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.”
God“Mechanization best serves mediocrity.”
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