Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes

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• Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth
• I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.
• The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.
• Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.
• Each material has its own message.
• Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.
• At night... the streets become rhythmical perspectives of glowing dotted lines, reflections hung upon them in the streets as the wistaria hangs its violet racemes…
• On this simple unit-system [of building blocks] ruled on the low table-top all these forms were combined by the child into imaginative patter. Design was…
• From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn't fastened down slides into Southern California.
• I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.
• San Francisco is the only city I can think of that can survive all the things you people are doing to it and still look…
• What I like best about San Francisco is San Francisco.
• Entering into the spirit of this interior, you will discover the best possible atmosphere in which to show fine paintings or listen to music. It…
• Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. The size of the project means little in art,…
• A vital difference between the professional man and a man of business is that money making to the professional man should, by virtue of his…
• Humanity to me is not a mob. A mob is a degeneration of humanity. A mob is humanity going the wrong way.
• Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Remy de Gourmont An idea is salvation by imagination
• Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey.
• Now, of course, architecture is a blind spot of our life in America today. How many millions of students go to the university to be…
• I know we can't have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord.

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