Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Mother, Art, Civilization

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Beautiful, Art, Discovery

• Space is the breath of art.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Art, Space, Architecture

• An idea is salvation by imagination.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Art, Ideas, Imagination

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

• Simplicity and Repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Art

  "In the Cause of Architecture".

• Architecture is for the young. If our teenagers don't get architecture - if they are not inspired, (then) we won't have the architecture that we must have if this country is going to be beautiful.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Beautiful, Country, Art

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

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Art, Philosophy, Sake

• Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. The size of the project means little in art, beyond the money matter. It is the quality of the character that really counts.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Art, Character, Mean

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1992). “Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1930-1932”, Rizzoli International Publications

• Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master's work of art. Individuality is sacred.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Art, Soul, Individuality

• You can't make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Art, Light, Doors

• If it sells, it's art.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Art, Ifs, Sells

• 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

• Beautiful buildings are more than scientific. They are true organisms, spiritually conceived; works of art, using the best technology by inspiration rather than the idiosyncrasies of mere taste or any averaging by the committee mind.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Beautiful, Art, Inspiration

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

• 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

• Entering into the spirit of this interior, you will discover the best possible atmosphere in which to show fine paintings or listen to music. It is this atmosphere that seems to me most lacking in our art galleries, museums, music halls and theaters.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Art, Museums, Atmosphere

• Architecture isman'sgreat sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as its source because great art isgreat life.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Art, Quality, World

  1930 In Frederick Gutheim (ed) Frank Lloyd Wright on Architecture: selected writings (1894-1940).

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