Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme. Frank Lloyd Wright More Quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright More Quotes From Frank Lloyd Wright Is there anything more anti-American than McCarthyism? Frank Lloyd Wright mccarthyismanti-american It is where life is fundamental and free that men develop the vision needed to reveal the human soul in the blossoms it puts forth. Frank Lloyd Wright visionsoulmen The baby boomers are out there, they've had a lot of good years of earnings, they've inherited wealth. They are buying trophy homes and will be for years. We are one of those places people dream of. They come here to buy a piece of that dream. Frank Lloyd Wright dreamhomebaby Architecture isman'sgreat sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as its source because great art isgreat life. Frank Lloyd Wright qualityworldart Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust. Frank Lloyd Wright dustdoemen Money shows [man] new ways to cheat life. Power becomes exterior instead of interior. In these circumstances architecture becomes too difficult, building too easy. Frank Lloyd Wright architecturemenway I know we can't have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord. Frank Lloyd Wright landlordarchitectureknows New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it. Frank Lloyd Wright soaptowersnew-york If you tilt the whole country sideways, Los Angeles is the place where everything loose will fall. Frank Lloyd Wright tiltcountryfall Taste is a matter of ignorance. If you know what you are tasting, you don't have to taste. Frank Lloyd Wright tasteignorancematter If you're going to have centralization, why not have it! Frank Lloyd Wright centralizationwhy-notifs New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent. Frank Lloyd Wright moneyartistnew-york The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it. Frank Lloyd Wright memorialartistcivilization No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built. Frank Lloyd Wright artistmenlife From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn't fastened down slides into Southern California. Frank Lloyd Wright californiaslidessouthern 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. Frank Lloyd Wright democracyspacereality 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. Frank Lloyd Wright creativityblockchildren We boast the highest standard of living when it's only the biggest. Frank Lloyd Wright standards-of-livingstandardsboast So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal. Frank Lloyd Wright preachingmodernarchitecture A man with a machine may murder or enslave millions, whereas it used to take at least thousands to murder millions. And the man behind the machine has nothing on his conscience. Frank Lloyd Wright machinesmaymen
