Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk
Frank Lloyd Wright Architect
Gender: Male
Citizenship: United States
Born: Jun 8, 1867
Died: Apr 9, 1959
Frank Lloyd Wright was an American architect, interior designer, writer, and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures and completed 532. Wright believed in designing structures that were in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture. This philosophy was best exemplified by Fallingwater, which has been called "the best all-time work of American architecture". Wright was a leader of the Prairie School movement of architecture and developed the concept of the Usonian home, his unique vision for urban planning in the United States.
His work includes original and innovative examples of many building types, including offices, churches, schools, skyscrapers, hotels, and museums. Wright also designed many of the interior elements of his buildings, such as the furniture and stained glass. Wright wrote 20 books and many articles and was a popular lecturer in the United States and in Europe. His colorful personal life often made headlines, most notably for the 1914 fire and murders at his Taliesin studio.
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
business
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
art & work
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
architecture & art
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
change & life
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
age, architecture, great & time
A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
age
Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
great
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
art
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
technology
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
life
A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.
great
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
money & power
The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
hope