"The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga……" — Frank Lloyd Wright

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

165 Quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright

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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…
All the more I study Nature do I revere God, because Nature is all the body of God we will…
The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have…
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…
Architecture is for the young. If our teenagers don't get architecture - if they are not inspired, (then) we won't…
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…
Science can give us only the tools in the box, these mechanical miracles that it has already given us. But…
We've been fighting from the beginning for organic architecture. That is, architecture where the whole is to the part as…

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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our… — Hannah Arendt
The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be… — Hannah Arendt
We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization.… — Julian Assange
Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the… — Margaret Atwood
The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push… — Irving Babbitt
Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere. — Richard Bach
Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that… — Edward Abbey
Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America.… — L. Frank Baum
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men. — Jane Addams
Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses. — Georges Bernanos
Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. — Ambrose Bierce
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by… — Ambrose Bierce

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