Artist Quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright

9 Artist quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright

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Wright’s ideas about creativity extend beyond architecture, and these nine snippets let you see his broader take on the artist’s place in shaping culture. It’s a compact but revealing window into his design philosophy.

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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

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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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The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

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'Think in simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole to its parts in simplest terms,…

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“...there is no true understanding of any art without some knowledge of its philosophy. Only then does its meaning come clear.”

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Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use.

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I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist's hand even were that magic hand in…

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“Now a work of art is a work of nature, but it is a work of human nature. It is a work…

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From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn't fastened down slides into Southern California.

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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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“Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.”

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Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read…

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“How many understand that Nature is the essencial character of whatever is. It's something you'll find by looking not at, but in, always in.…

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The cultural influences in our country are like the floo floo bird. I am referring to the peculiar and especial bird who always flew…

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Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change

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

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The belief in a thing makes it happen.

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“give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.”

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It's easier to make changes with a pencil than a wrecking bar.

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

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A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches fifty, and a fool if he doesn't drink afterward.

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Entering into the spirit of this interior, you will discover the best possible atmosphere in which to show fine paintings or listen to music.…

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A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched…

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