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Frank Lloyd Wright said many noteable things in his life, especially about arcitecture. I have included some of them on this page.
Wright Quotes
"The mother of art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization"
"Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity."
"Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun"
"Mechanization best serves mediocrity"
"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."
"Classicism is a mask and does not reflect transition. How can such a static expression allow interpretation of human life as we know it? A fire house should not resemble a French Chateau, a bank a Greek temple and a university a Gothic Cathedral. All of the ism are imposition on life itself by way of previous education."
"Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground."
"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."
"Less is only more where more is no good"
"Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art"
"Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now."
"The room within is the great fact about the building"
"Form follows function-that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union"
"Every great architect is -- necessarily -- a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age"
The architect must be a prophet . . . a prophet in the true sense of the term . . . if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect"
"An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site"
"Consider everything in the nature of a hanging fixture a weakness, and naked radiators an abomination"
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