Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes - Page 7

The outcome of the city will depend on the race between the automobile and the elevator, and anyone who bets on the elevator is crazy.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

It is where life is fundamental and free that men develop the vision needed to reveal the human soul in the blossoms it puts forth.

I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.

If you tilt the whole country sideways, Los Angeles is the place where everything loose will fall.

I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.

I voted for Stevenson as opposed to Eisenhower because I thought he would make a good president, but against my conscience because I thought that he was too good for the job.

I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.

I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.

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 recreation! ...The virtue of all this lay in the awakening of the childmind to rhythmic structure in Nature - giving the child a sense of innate cause-and-effect otherwise far beyond child-comprehension.

When anyone becomes an authority, that is the end of him as far as development is concerned.

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 beautiful.

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been sorry.

Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

I do not believe in adding enrichment merely for the sake of enrichment. Unless it adds clearness to the enunciation of the theme, it is undesirable, for it is very little understood.

So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal and the teaching so much needed if we are to see the whole of life, and to now serve the whole of life, holding no traditions essential to the great TRADITION. Nor cherishing any preconceived form fixing upon us either past, present or future, but-instead-exalting the simple laws of common sense-or of super-sense if you prefer-determining form by way of the nature of materials.

Is there anything more anti-American than McCarthyism?

I think Miss Monroe as architecture is extremely good architecture, and she's a very natural actress, and a very good one.

Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly.

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.

Prison house for the soul

Boston: Clear out eight hundred thousand people and preserve it as a museum piece. New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.