Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes

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• I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.
• 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…
• All the more I study Nature do I revere God, because Nature is all the body of God we will ever know.
• The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources…
• The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you're an atheist, pretend how God would do it.
• The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was…
• Architecture is for the young. If our teenagers don't get architecture - if they are not inspired, (then) we won't have the architecture that we…
• You can't make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it.
• Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master's work of art. Individuality is sacred.
• 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…
• Science can give us only the tools in the box, these mechanical miracles that it has already given us. But of what use to us…
• We've been fighting from the beginning for organic architecture. That is, architecture where the whole is to the part as the part is to the…
• Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use.
• Self fulfilling prophecies do exist in real life
• A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.
• The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears - as the song of birds, wind in the…
• They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.
• The room within is the great fact about the building.
• We should have a system of economics that is structure that is organic tools. We do not have it. We are all hanging by our…
• Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived…

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