Frank Lloyd
Frank Lloyd
Frank William George Lloydwas an American film director, scriptwriter and producer. He was among the founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and was its president from 1934-35...
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth2 February 1886
humanity way degeneration
Humanity to me is not a mob. A mob is a degeneration of humanity. A mob is humanity going the wrong way.
boys smoking mind
I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.
san-francisco
What I like best about San Francisco is San Francisco.
atheist thinking creative
The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you're an atheist, pretend how God would do it.
california southern slides
From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn't fastened down slides into Southern California.
moving things-to-do best-things
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
blind-spots america today
Now, of course, architecture is a blind spot of our life in America today. How many millions of students go to the university to be educated? They come away conditioned, not enlightened, and they know nothing of architecture, although they have a department somewhere around -- probably in the basement.
money new-york artist
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
architecture landlord knows
I know we can't have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord.
beauty long lasts
Architecture is the frame of human existence. We must dedicate this existence more to beauty. For if poetic principle has deserted us, how long are we going to last?
cutting half painting
If the paintings are too large, cut them in half!
children block creativity
On this simple unit-system [of building blocks] ruled on the low table-top all these forms were combined by the child into imaginative patter. Design was recreation! ...The virtue of all this lay in the awakening of the childmind to rhythmic structure in Nature - giving the child a sense of innate cause-and-effect otherwise far beyond child-comprehension.
science men giving
Science can give us only the tools in the box, these mechanical miracles that it has already given us. But of what use to us are miraculous tools until we have mastered the humane, cultural use of them? We do not want to live in a world where the machine has mastered the man; we want to live in a world where man has mastered the machine.
beauty beautiful ugly
Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly.