Space. The continual becoming: invisible fountain from which all rhythms flow and to which they must pass. Beyond time or infinity
Frank Lloyd WrightBy playing down to the idea of the common man, dogmatic political authority exploits him... So the ideal of innate aristocracy of which hour forefathers dreamed is betrayed for votes in the name of democracy.
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 WrightWhy should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?
Frank Lloyd WrightForm follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
Frank Lloyd WrightA civilization is only a way of life. A culture is the way of making that way of life beautiful. So culture is your office here in America, and as no stream can rise higher than its source, so you can give no more or better to architecture than you are. So why not go to work on yourselves, to make yourselves, in quality, what you would have your buildings be?
Frank Lloyd WrightThe 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.
Frank Lloyd WrightRegard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. The size of the project means little in art, beyond the money matter. It is the quality of the character that really counts.
Frank Lloyd WrightI think Miss Monroe as architecture is extremely good architecture, and she's a very natural actress, and a very good one.
Frank Lloyd WrightI have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.
Frank Lloyd WrightIf you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
Frank Lloyd WrightWe should have a system of economics that is structure that is organic tools. We do not have it. We are all hanging by our eyebrows from skyhooks economically, just as we are architecturally.
Frank Lloyd WrightWood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.
Frank Lloyd WrightThe screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears - as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.
Frank Lloyd WrightThe two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction site.
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 WrightThe present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
Frank Lloyd WrightSo here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal and the teaching so much needed if we are to see the whole of life, and to now serve the whole of life, holding no traditions essential to the great TRADITION. Nor cherishing any preconceived form fixing upon us either past, present or future, but-instead-exalting the simple laws of common sense-or of super-sense if you prefer-determining form by way of the nature of materials.
Frank Lloyd WrightThe scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of the world and remember, it will be a poet, not a scientist.
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 WrightWe should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.
Frank Lloyd WrightTo know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how, ah, that is to have been educated in knowledge of simplicity.
Frank Lloyd WrightYouth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
Frank Lloyd WrightEventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
Frank Lloyd WrightThe outcome of the city will depend on the race between the automobile and the elevator, and anyone who bets on the elevator is crazy.
Frank Lloyd WrightNo house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.
Frank Lloyd WrightScience can give us only the tools in the box, these mechanical miracles that it has already given us. But of what use to us are miraculous tools until we have mastered the humane, cultural use of them? We do not want to live in a world where the machine has mastered the man; we want to live in a world where man has mastered the machine.
Frank Lloyd WrightEvery great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
Frank Lloyd WrightAt night... the streets become rhythmical perspectives of glowing dotted lines, reflections hung upon them in the streets as the wistaria hangs its violet racemes on its trellis. The buildings are shimmering verticality, a gossamer veil, a festive scene-prop hanging there against the black sky to dazzle, entertain, amaze.
Frank Lloyd WrightIf you would see how interwoven it is in the warp and woof of civilization ... go at night-fall to the top of one of the down-town steel giants and you may see how in the image of material man, at once his glory and his menace, is this thing we call a city.
Frank Lloyd WrightArchitecture is for the young. If our teenagers don't get architecture - if they are not inspired, (then) we won't have the architecture that we must have if this country is going to be beautiful.
Frank Lloyd WrightAs we live and as we are, Simplicity - with a capital "S" - is difficult to comprehend nowadays. We are no longer truly simple. We no longer live in simple terms or places. Life is a more complex struggle now. It is now valiant to be simple: a courageous thing to even want to be simple. It is a spiritual thing to comprehend what simplicity means.
Frank Lloyd WrightTaste is a matter of ignorance. If you know what you are tasting, you don't have to taste.
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