Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes Click here for Frank Lloyd Wright books Frank Lloyd Wright: An Autobiography "Every great architect is — necessarily — a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age." "Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived." "All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable." "A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart." "Architecture is the triumph of Human Imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth." "Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them." "An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board — and a wrecking bar at the site." "If 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." "Freedom is from within." "New York is the biggest mouth in the world. It appears to be prime example of the herd instinct, leading the universal urban conspiracy to beguile man from his birthright (the good ground), to hang him by his eyebrows from skyhooks above hard pavement, to crucify him, sell him, or be sold by him." "I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city." "So while New York has reproduced much and produced nothing, Chicago’s achievements in architecture have gained world-wide recognition as a distinctively American architecture." "Get the habit of analysis — analysis will, in time, enable synthesis to become your habit of mind." "New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it." "No 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." "The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines." "Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see." "If we wish to know the truth concerning anything, we'll find it in the nature of that thing." "Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change." "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." "A free America, democratic in the sense that our forefathers intended it to be, 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." "Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities." "A vital difference between the professional man and a man of business is that money making to the professional man should, by virtue of his assumption, be incidental; to the business man it is primary. Money has its limitations; while it may buy quantity, there is something beyond it and that is quality." "An idea is salvation by imagination." "Space is the breath of art." "I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters." "I would like to have a free architecture. Architecture that belonged where you see it standing — and is a grace to the landscape instead of a disgrace." "Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture." "The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own, we have no soul of our own civilization." |
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