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Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?

Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?

Frank Lloyd Wright
Art, Age, Machines
Frank Lloyd Wright (1955). “An American architecture”, Horizon Pr

Wherever human life is concerned, the unnatural stricture of excessive verticality cannot stand against more natural horizontality.

Frank Lloyd Wright
Life Is, Natural, Human Life

I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist's hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion.

Frank Lloyd Wright
Art, Believe, Hands
Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (1995). “1949-1959”, Rizzoli International Publications

Consider everything in the nature of a hanging fixture a weakness, and naked radiators an abomination.

Frank Lloyd Wright
Weakness, Naked, Fixture
David A. Hanks, Frank Lloyd Wright, Renwick Gallery (1979). “The Decorative Designs of Frank Lloyd Wright”, p.49, Courier Corporation

Taste is a matter of ignorance. If you know what you are tasting, you don't have to taste.

Frank Lloyd Wright
Ignorance, Matter, Taste

If you're going to have centralization, why not have it!

Frank Lloyd Wright
Why Not, Centralization, Ifs

The sense of space within the reality of any building is a new concept wherever architecture is concerned. But it is essential ancient principle just the same and is not only necessary now but implied by the ideal of democracy itself.

Frank Lloyd Wright
Reality, Space, Democracy

What I like best about San Francisco is San Francisco.

Frank Lloyd Wright
San Francisco

If the paintings are too large, cut them in half!

Frank Lloyd Wright
Cutting, Half, Painting

It is a terrific thing to get a building built that has the qualities of greatness in it.

Frank Lloyd Wright
Greatness, Quality, Building

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 educated? They come away conditioned, not enlightened, and they know nothing of architecture, although they have a department somewhere around -- probably in the basement.

Frank Lloyd Wright
America, Blind Spots, Today

It looked a lot worse than it was. Al is going to be released. He has vision and it's going to be day-by-day prognosis now. But it's much, much better than we initially anticipated.

Frank Lloyd Wright
Vision, Als, Prognosis

If you would see how interwoven it is in the warp and woof of civilization ... go at night-fall to the top of one of the down-town steel giants and you may see how in the image of material man, at once his glory and his menace, is this thing we call a city.

Frank Lloyd Wright
Fall, Night, Men
Frank Lloyd Wright (1941). “Frank Lloyd Wright on architecture: selected writings 1894-1940”

We should have a system of economics that is structure that is organic tools. We do not have it. We are all hanging by our eyebrows from skyhooks economically, just as we are architecturally.

Frank Lloyd Wright
Should Have, Eyebrows, Tools
Frank Lloyd Wright (1987). “Truth Against the World: Frank Lloyd Wright Speaks for an Organic Architecture”

The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction site.

Frank Lloyd Wright
Two, Drawing, Design

Self fulfilling prophecies do exist in real life

Frank Lloyd Wright
Encouragement, Real, Self

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