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
travel new-york home
Boston: Clear out eight hundred thousand people and preserve it as a museum piece. New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.
modern-life architecture modern
The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.
bridges arches hills
I'll bridge these hills with graceful arches
ideas disrespect authority
The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas.
beautiful thinking challenges
Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly, but take every building to pieces, and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the curious from the beautiful. Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. 'Think simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.
mistake ivy doctors
Doctors bury their mistakes, Architects cover them with ivy
beautiful civilization america
A civilization is only a way of life. A culture is the way of making that way of life beautiful. So culture is your office here in America, and as no stream can rise higher than its source, so you can give no more or better to architecture than you are. So why not go to work on yourselves, to make yourselves, in quality, what you would have your buildings be?
why-not centralization ifs
If you're going to have centralization, why not have it!
cities doubt world
I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city.
church
I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.
life mean men
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
beautiful faults ugly
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.
ideas god-love
Love of an idea is the love of God.
book eye heart
Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title. - Virginia Woolf, from Jacob's Room Television is chewing gum for the eyes.