Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wrightwas 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, 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArchitect
Date of Birth8 June 1867
CityRichland Center, WI
CountryUnited States of America
The cultural influences in our country are like the floo floo bird. I am referring to the peculiar and especial bird who always flew backward. To keep the wind out of its eyes? No. Just because it didn't give a darn where it was going, but just had to see where it had been.
Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.
Love of an idea is the love of God.
Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly.
Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
Mechanization best serves mediocrity.
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.
If you tilt the whole country sideways, Los Angeles is the place where everything loose will fall.
I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.
We boast the highest standard of living when it's only the biggest.
Prison house for the soul
Humanity to me is not a mob. A mob is a degeneration of humanity. A mob is humanity going the wrong way.