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Frank Lloyd Wright
June 8, 1867 - April 9, 1959
Nationality: American
Category: Architect
Subcategory: American Architect

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

   

Less is only more where more is no good.

   

The truth is more important than the facts.

   

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.

   

"Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

   

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

   

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

   

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.

   

I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.

   

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

   

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

   

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

   

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

   

Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.

   

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

   

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.

   

Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

   

Freedom is from within.

   

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

   

Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.

   

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