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
encouragement real self
Self fulfilling prophecies do exist in real life
nature fighting democracy
We've been fighting from the beginning for organic architecture. That is, architecture where the whole is to the part as the part is to the whole, and where the nature of materials, the nature of the purpose, the nature of the entire performance becomes a necessity-architecture of democracy.
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.
two design doe
We have no longer an outside and an inside as two separate things. Now the outside may come inside and the inside may and does go outside. They are of each other. Form and function thus become one in design and execution if the nature of materials and method and purpose are all in unison.
messages materials
Each material has its own message.
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.
new-york soap towers
Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey.
cutting half painting
If the paintings are too large, cut them in half!
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.
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.
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.
development authority ends
When anyone becomes an authority, that is the end of him as far as development is concerned.
ignorance matter taste
Taste is a matter of ignorance. If you know what you are tasting, you don't have to taste.
weakness naked fixture
Consider everything in the nature of a hanging fixture a weakness, and naked radiators an abomination.