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
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True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building, or a park. At its best it is an emphasis of structure, a realization in graceful terms of the nature of that which is ornamented
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A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.
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The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
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A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
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Freedom is from within.
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All the more I study Nature do I revere God, because Nature is all the body of God we will ever know.
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The room within is the great fact about the building.
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Space. The continual becoming: invisible fountain from which all rhythms flow and to which they must pass. Beyond time or infinity
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Building becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful, to put concordance, sympathy with nature, and all that into it. Then you have architecture.
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An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
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Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
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Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
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TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
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Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.