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
Love is the virtue of the Heart, Sincerity is the virtue of the Mind, Decision is the virtue of the Will, Courage is the virtue of the Spirit.
Imitation is always insult--not flattery.
Youth is not an age thing. It's a quality. Once you've had it, you never lose it.
Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge
When I see architecture that moves me, I hear music in my inner ear
The dynamic ideal we call democracy, gradually growing up in the human heart for two-thousand five hundred years, at least, has now every opportunity to found the natural democratic state in these United States of America by way of natural economic order and a natural, or organic, architecture.
It's easier to make changes with a pencil than a wrecking bar.
The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.