Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes (61 quotes)

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„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.“
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„Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.“
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„The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.“
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„Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.“
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„Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.“
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„I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.“
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„I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.“
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„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.“
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„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.“
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„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.“
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„To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.“
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„The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.“
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„Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.“
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„The space within becomes the reality of the building.“
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„Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.“
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„I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.“
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„An idea is salvation by imagination.“
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„Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.“
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„A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.“
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„An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.“

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Frank Lloyd Wright
Author born: June 08, 1867
Author died: April 09, 1959
Nationality: American
Author Profession: Architect

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