Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes - Page 8

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• 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.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Nature, Motherhood, Artist

  "Truth Against the World: Frank Lloyd Wright Speaks for an Organic Architecture". Book edited by Patrick J. Meehan, 1987.

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• The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Ideas, Disrespect, Authority

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

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• New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  New York, Towers, Soap

  The New York Times, November 27, 1955.

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• Money shows [man] new ways to cheat life. Power becomes exterior instead of interior. In these circumstances architecture becomes too difficult, building too easy.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Men, Way, Architecture

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• 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.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Life, Artist, Men

  Frank Lloyd Wright (2008). “The Essential Frank Lloyd Wright: Critical Writings on Architecture”

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• Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Mediocrity, Mechanization

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• From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn't fastened down slides into Southern California.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  California, Southern, Slides

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• So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Architecture, Modern, Preaching

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1970). “The Future of Architecture”

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• We boast the highest standard of living when it's only the biggest.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Standards, Standards Of Living, Boast

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• A man with a machine may murder or enslave millions, whereas it used to take at least thousands to murder millions. And the man behind the machine has nothing on his conscience.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Men, Machines, May

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title. - Virginia Woolf, from Jacob's Room Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Book, Heart, Eye

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• I could list of dozens things my fiancee does that annoys me and I'm sure he could list off hundreds of things about me but the fact is that even through all that we love each other. We love each other in spite of our flaws and despite all the things we do that should make us hate each other we still continue to fall deeper in love. Sometimes we want to hate each other but for two people who are truly in love it simply isn't possible. Not even a little but, not even at all.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Hate, Fall, Romantic Love

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• The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears - as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Love, Song, Heart

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1995). “Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1949-1959”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• The dynamic ideal we call democracy, gradually growing up in the human heart for two-thousand five hundred years, at least, has now every opportunity to found the natural democratic state in these United States of America by way of natural economic order and a natural, or organic, architecture.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Growing Up, Heart, Opportunity

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• 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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• Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Men, Dust, Doe

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• I don't build a house without predicting the end of the present social order.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Order, House, Social

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I'm against war. Always have been, always will be. And everything connected with it, is anathema to me. I have never considered it necessary.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  War, Anathema, Connected

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Greed in human nature may now come near to enslaving all humanity by means of the Machine - so fast and far has progress gone with it. This will be evident to anyone who stops to study the modern mechanistic Moloch and takes time to view it in its larger aspects.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Mean, Views, Greed

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The baby boomers are out there, they've had a lot of good years of earnings, they've inherited wealth. They are buying trophy homes and will be for years. We are one of those places people dream of. They come here to buy a piece of that dream.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Dream, Baby, Home

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• Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Respect, Artist, Men

  Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (1992). “Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1930-1932”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns

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• I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Boys, Smoking, Mind

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• Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Book, Writing, Four

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• All I learned from Eliel Saarinen was how to make out an expense account

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Expenses, Make Out, Accounts

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• 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

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