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The architect should strive co...

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.

Frank Wright 274 quotes

The Lincoln Memorial is relate...

The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.

Frank Wright 274 quotes

The heart is the chief feature...

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.

Frank Wright 274 quotes

The architect must be a prophe...

The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.

Frank Wright 274 quotes

Television is chewing gum for ...

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

Frank Wright 274 quotes

Study nature, love nature, sta...

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

Frank Wright 274 quotes

Space is the breath of art....

Space is the breath of art.

Frank Wright 274 quotes

Simplicity and repose are the ...

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

Frank Wright 274 quotes

Respect the masterpiece. It is...

Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.

Frank Wright 274 quotes

Regard it as just as desirable...

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

Frank Wright 274 quotes

Organic buildings are the stre...

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.

Frank Wright 274 quotes

Organic architecture seeks sup...

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.

Frank Wright 274 quotes

No stream rises higher than it...

No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.

Frank Wright 274 quotes

Noble life demands a noble arc...

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

Frank Wright 274 quotes

No house should ever be on a h...

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.

Frank Wright 274 quotes

New York City is a great monum...

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.

Frank Wright 274 quotes

Nature is my manifestation of ...

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

Frank Wright 274 quotes

Mechanization best serves medi...

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

Frank Wright 274 quotes

Maybe we can show government h...

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.

Frank Wright 274 quotes

Life always rides in strength ...

Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.

Frank Wright 274 quotes

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