Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes - Page 5

New York is the biggest mouth in the world. It appears to be prime example of the herd instinct, leading the universal urban conspiracy to beguile man from his birthright (the good ground), to hang him by his eyebrows from skyhooks above hard pavement, to crucify him, sell him, or be sold by him.

Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.

I find that government can be a kind of gangsterism and is in Russia. And is likely to be in America if we don't take care of ourselves pretty carefully.

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

Television is bubble-gum for the mind.

The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you're an atheist, pretend how God would do it.

Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.

Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm.

The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of the world and remember, it will be a poet, not a scientist.

Our forefathers were not only brave. I believe they were right. I believe that what they meant was that every man born had equal right to grow from scratch by way of his own power unhindered to the highest expression of himself possible to him.

The room within is the great fact about the building.

Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.

I know we can't have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord.

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Architecture is the frame of human existence. We must dedicate this existence more to beauty. For if poetic principle has deserted us, how long are we going to last?

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Remy de Gourmont An idea is salvation by imagination

Doctors bury their mistakes, Architects cover them with ivy

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 its trellis. The buildings are shimmering verticality, a gossamer veil, a festive scene-prop hanging there against the black sky to dazzle, entertain, amaze.

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.

Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.

Love of an idea is the love of God.

We do not learn so much by our successes as we learn by failures - our own and others! Especially if we see the failures properly corrected.

Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly, but take every building to pieces, and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the curious from the beautiful. Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. 'Think simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.