The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
—Frank Lloyd Wright
Topics: Hope, Present
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.
—Frank Lloyd Wright
Topics: Design
Get the habit of analysis- analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.
—Frank Lloyd Wright
Oh Rat’s.
—Frank Lloyd Wright
Topics: Architecture
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
—Frank Lloyd Wright
Topics: God, Nature, Believe, Atheism, Wisdom
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.
—Frank Lloyd Wright
Topics: Mistakes, Doctors, Architecture
Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
—Frank Lloyd Wright
Topics: Artists, Art, Arts
The 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 Wright
Topics: Poetry
The heart is the first feature of working minds.
—Frank Lloyd Wright
Topics: Heart
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
—Frank Lloyd Wright
Topics: Youth
The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas.
—Frank Lloyd Wright
Topics: Authority
Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.
—Frank Lloyd Wright
Topics: Art
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
—Frank Lloyd Wright
Topics: Perseverance, Endurance, Secrets of Success, Resolve, Performance
Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
—Frank Lloyd Wright
Topics: Youth
Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance, and have seen no occasion to change.
—Frank Lloyd Wright
Topics: Life, Humility, Change, Hypocrisy
Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use the word order.
—Frank Lloyd Wright
Topics: Architecture
Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.
—Frank Lloyd Wright
An idea is salvation by imagination.
—Frank Lloyd Wright
Topics: Imagination
The truth is more important than the facts.
—Frank Lloyd Wright
Topics: Truth, Right, Act, Honesty
Space is the breath of art.
—Frank Lloyd Wright
Topics: Space
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
—Frank Lloyd Wright
Topics: Simplicity, Architecture
The 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 Wright
Topics: City Life, Cities
The cultural influences in our country are like the floo floo bird. I am referring to the peculiar and especial bird who always flew backward. To keep the wind out of its eyes? No. Just because it didn’t give a darn where it was going, but just had to see where it had been.
—Frank Lloyd Wright
Topics: Past, The Past
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
—Frank Lloyd Wright
Topics: Technology
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
—Frank Lloyd Wright
The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
—Frank Lloyd Wright
Topics: Life, Living, Beauty
I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.
—Frank Lloyd Wright
Topics: Intelligence, Intellectuals
I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.
—Frank Lloyd Wright
Topics: Capitalism
I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist’s hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion.
—Frank Lloyd Wright
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
—Frank Lloyd Wright
Topics: Architecture
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- Vincent Price American Actor
- Buckminster Fuller American Inventor, Philosopher
- Jane Addams American Social Reformer
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- Bob Newhart American Comedian
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