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
mediocrity mechanization
Mechanization best serves mediocrity.
character understanding use
How many understand that Nature is the essential character of whatever is. It's something you'll find by looking not at, but in, always in. It's always inside the thing, and it makes the outside. And some day, when you get sufficiently proficient in understanding the use of the term, you can tell by the outside pretty much from what's inside.
life responsibility artist
Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
stupid drinking beer
A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
nature motherhood artist
God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
respect men artist
Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.
beautiful art inspiration
Beautiful buildings are more than scientific. They are true organisms, spiritually conceived; works of art, using the best technology by inspiration rather than the idiosyncrasies of mere taste or any averaging by the committee mind.
life-is natural human-life
Wherever human life is concerned, the unnatural stricture of excessive verticality cannot stand against more natural horizontality.
weakness naked fixture
Consider everything in the nature of a hanging fixture a weakness, and naked radiators an abomination.
ignorance matter taste
Taste is a matter of ignorance. If you know what you are tasting, you don't have to taste.
standards standards-of-living boast
We boast the highest standard of living when it's only the biggest.
development authority ends
When anyone becomes an authority, that is the end of him as far as development is concerned.
reality space democracy
The sense of space within the reality of any building is a new concept wherever architecture is concerned. But it is essential ancient principle just the same and is not only necessary now but implied by the ideal of democracy itself.
artist civilization memorial
The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.