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Frank Lloyd Wright

(1867–1959) Designer United States

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Frank Lloyd Wright was a designer from the United States, best known for Frank Lloyd Wright.

Quick Facts About Frank Lloyd Wright

Born: June 8, 1867
Died: April 9, 1959
Nationality: United States
Profession: Designer
Notable works: Frank Lloyd Wright
Known for: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Fallingwater, Prairie School architecture, Emil Bach House, Pettit Memorial Chapel
Spouse: Miriam Noel Wright

About Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright Sr. was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator. He designed more than 1,000 structures over a creative period of 70 years. Wright played a key role in the architectural movements of the twentieth century, influencing architects worldwide through his works and mentoring hundreds of apprentices in his Taliesin Fellowship. Wright believed in designing in harmony with humanity and the environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture. This philosophy was exemplified in Fallingwater (1935), which has been called "the best all-time work of American architecture".

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Royal Gold Medal Frank P. Brown Medal

Quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright · Page 2

Love of an idea is the love of God.

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God

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One war only breeds another.

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Breeds

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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

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Believe

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Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet.

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Architect

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There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

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Common

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When I see architecture that moves me, I hear music in my inner ear

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Architecture

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Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.

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Art

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Television is bubble-gum for the mind

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Bubble

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A building is not just a place to be but a way to be.

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Architecture

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Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.

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Body

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

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Education

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The outcome of the city will depend on the race between the automobile and the elevator, and anyone who bets on the…

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Automobile

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The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

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Divides

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I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

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Architect

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I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it.

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Building

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I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent…

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Anachronism

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

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Life

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Love is the virtue of the Heart, Sincerity is the virtue of the Mind, Decision is the virtue of the Will, Courage…

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Character

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I do not believe in adding enrichment merely for the sake of enrichment. Unless it adds clearness to the enunciation of the…

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Add

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A man with a machine may murder or enslave millions, whereas it used to take at least thousands to murder millions. And…

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Behinds

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

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Every day

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Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and…

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Arrogance

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Money shows [man] new ways to cheat life. Power becomes exterior instead of interior. In these circumstances architecture becomes too difficult, building…

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Architecture

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Boston: Clear out eight hundred thousand people and preserve it as a museum piece. New York: Prison towers and modern posters for…

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Abandon

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The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of…

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Being natural

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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…

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Book

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“Liberty may be granted but freedom cannot be conferred. Freedom is from within. Notwithstanding all the abuses to which freedom is now…

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Change

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

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Character

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So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal and the teaching so much…

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Architecture

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As we live and as we are, Simplicity - with a capital "S" - is difficult to comprehend nowadays. We are no…

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Courageous

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A civilization is only a way of life. A culture is the way of making that way of life beautiful. So culture…

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America

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When we come to understand architecture as the essential nature of all harmonious structure we will see that it is the architecture…

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Architecture

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I could list of dozens things my fiancee does that annoys me and I'm sure he could list off hundreds of things…

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Annoying

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At night... the streets become rhythmical perspectives of glowing dotted lines, reflections hung upon them in the streets as the wistaria hangs…

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Black

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Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.

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Democracy

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Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.

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Buildings

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Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey.

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Modern

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

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Art

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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

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Circumstances

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The belief in a thing makes it happen.

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Belief

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