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Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Quotes: Frank Lloyd Wright


A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.
- Frank Lloyd Wright


An idea is salvation by imagination.
- Frank Lloyd Wright


The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright


The truth is more important than the facts.
- Frank Lloyd Wright


Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
- Frank Lloyd Wright



Form follows function-that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
- Frank Lloyd Wright, 1908


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 Lloyd Wright, 1908


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, New York Times, October 4, 1953


Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
- Frank Lloyd Wright, quoted in his obituary, April 9, 1959


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 (1869 - 1959)


Television: chewing gum for the eyes.
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)


The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)


I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)


Freedom is from within.
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)