Frank Lloyd Wright
Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Space is the breath of art.
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
Simplicity and repose are 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.
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
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.
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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.
No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
Mechanization best serves mediocrity.
Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
Less is only more where more is no good.
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.