“Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.”
Art
“Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.”
GreatAll Quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright
“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“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“The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.”
Architecture“The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.”
Home“Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.”
Life“Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.”
Respect“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“Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.”
Architecture“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“An idea is salvation by imagination.”
Imagination“Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.”
Art“Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.”
Great“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.”
God“Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.”
Architecture“The truth is more important than the facts.”
Truth“Less is only more where more is no good.”
Good“New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.”
Money“The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.”
Hope“Freedom is from within.”
Freedom