The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope. Frank Lloyd Wright More Quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright More Quotes From Frank Lloyd Wright Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly. Frank Lloyd Wright ugly beautiful beauty 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. Frank Lloyd Wright new-york home travel I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist's hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion. Frank Lloyd Wright believe hands art I think Miss Monroe as architecture is extremely good architecture, and she's a very natural actress, and a very good one. Frank Lloyd Wright architect architecture thinking Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery? Frank Lloyd Wright machines age art The cultural influences in our country are like the floo floo bird. I am referring to the peculiar and especial bird who always flew backward. To keep the wind out of its eyes? No. Just because it didn't give a darn where it was going, but just had to see where it had been. Frank Lloyd Wright eye country past Consider everything in the nature of a hanging fixture a weakness, and naked radiators an abomination. Frank Lloyd Wright fixture naked weakness Wherever human life is concerned, the unnatural stricture of excessive verticality cannot stand against more natural horizontality. Frank Lloyd Wright human-life life-is natural Mechanization best serves mediocrity. Frank Lloyd Wright mechanization mediocrity Self fulfilling prophecies do exist in real life Frank Lloyd Wright encouragement real self I'll bridge these hills with graceful arches Frank Lloyd Wright arches hills bridges 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. Frank Lloyd Wright motherhood nature artist The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction site. Frank Lloyd Wright drawing design two Prison house for the soul Frank Lloyd Wright prison soul house When anyone becomes an authority, that is the end of him as far as development is concerned. Frank Lloyd Wright development authority ends Business is like riding a bicycle. Either you keep moving or you fall down. Frank Lloyd Wright A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. Frank Lloyd Wright A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines. Frank Lloyd Wright All fine architectural values are human vales, else not valuable. Frank Lloyd Wright Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasions to change. Frank Lloyd Wright
