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Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes

1867–1959 United States

Frank Lloyd Wright (8 June 1867 – 9 April 1959) was an American architect, interior designer, writer, and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures, 532 of which were completed. Wright believed in designing structures that were in harmony with humanity and its environment, with a philosophy he called organic architecture.

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Also known as: Wright, Frank Lloyd, The Living City

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

An Organic Architecture (1939)

Exuberance to me early meant ecstacy of love, the poetic principle of life.

A Testament (1957)

I never had much respect for the collector's mind.

A Testament (1957)

This drift toward quantity instead of quality is largely distortion.

A Testament (1957)

Man either learns to usefor humanity his new facilities or he perishes by them.

A Testament (1957)

Nature's own inexhaustible fertility is manifest exuberance, and never less than the elemental poetry of all her structure.

A Testament (1957)

Spirit is man's new power if he is to be truly mighty in his civilization.

A Testament (1957)

Is false abstraction always the consequence of spiritual degeneration?

A Testament (1957)

Servility increases—already a seemingly unguarded danger to democracy not only in art and architecture and religion but in all phases of life.

A Testament (1957)

There is nothing so timid as a million dollars.

A Testament (1957)

Science is inventive but creative never.

A Testament (1957)

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature and it has been said often 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. If we wish to know the truth concerning anything, we'll find it in the nature of that thing.

Truth Against the World : Frank Lloyd Wright speaks for an organic architecture (1987)

Between the radical and the conformist lies all the difference between a lithe tendon and a length of gas-pipe.

A Testament (1957)

The petty bias of personal taste can no longer hide either excrescence or spiritual poverty in the name of style.

A Testament (1957)

As melody is in music ornament is in architecture revelation of the poetic-principle, with character and significance.

A Testament (1957)

Only Art and Religion can bring this new vision as reality to a nation.

A Testament (1957)

No jealousy is comparable to professional jealousy.

A Testament (1957)

Intellectual is not necessarily intelligent either.

A Testament (1957)

Resemblances are mistaken for influences.

A Testament (1957)

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

The Living City (1958)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Frank Lloyd Wright (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.