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
Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.
Less is more only when more is too much.
I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
To me, young has no meaning. It's something you can do nothing about, nothing at all. But youth is a quality. And if you have it, you never lose it.
It is a terrific thing to get a building built that has the qualities of greatness in it.
San Francisco is the only city I can think of that can survive all the things you people are doing to it and still look beautiful.
The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears - as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.
I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.
Humanity to me is not a mob. A mob is a degeneration of humanity. A mob is humanity going the wrong way.
I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.
What I like best about San Francisco is San Francisco.
The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you're an atheist, pretend how God would do it.
From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn't fastened down slides into Southern California.
The best thing to do is go as far out as you can get... what you regard as 'too far' - and when others follow, as they will, move on