Quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright

American architect

Lived from: 1867 - 1959

Born: 8 june 1867 Died: 9 april 1959

  • Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual
  • Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.
  • If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
  • Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall
  • No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.
  • A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
  • Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
  • Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
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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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  • All fine architectural values are human vales, else not valuable.
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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 occasions to change.
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  • I wouldn't mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.
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  • TV, chewing gum for the eyes.
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  • An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site
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  • An idea is salvation by imagination
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  • A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
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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 heart.
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  • A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
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  • An idea is salvation by imagination.
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  • Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall
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  • Business is like riding a bicycle. Either you keep moving or you fall down.
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  • Consider everything in the nature of a hanging fixture a weakness, and naked radiators an abomination
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  • Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.
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  • Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change
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  • Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age
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  • Form follows function-that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union
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  • Freedom is from within.
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  • Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.
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What are the most famous quotes from Frank Lloyd Wright?

The two most famous quotes from Frank Lloyd Wright are:

  • "Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual"
  • "All fine architectural values are human vales, else not valuable."

When did Frank Lloyd Wright live?

Frank Lloyd Wright was born in 1867 and died in the year 1959.