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 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. Frank Lloyd Wright ugly faults beautiful The longer I lived, the more beautiful life became - despite my personal tragedies, the fire, despite my third wife and her dreadful taste. My dear Olgivanna, she insisted on replacing the lovely canvas and wooden trusses at Taliesin West with steel supports and pink frosted glass. Well, I was too old to care by then. What I decided early on was this: If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life. Frank Lloyd Wright glasses fire beautiful I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. Frank Lloyd Wright architect inspiration Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy. Frank Lloyd Wright democracy communism opposites You can't make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it. Frank Lloyd Wright light doors art The best friend of earth of man is the tree. Frank Lloyd Wright earth tree men The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you're an atheist, pretend how God would do it. Frank Lloyd Wright creative atheist thinking Entering into the spirit of this interior, you will discover the best possible atmosphere in which to show fine paintings or listen to music. It is this atmosphere that seems to me most lacking in our art galleries, museums, music halls and theaters. Frank Lloyd Wright atmosphere museums art Imitate nothing except principle. Frank Lloyd Wright principles 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. Frank Lloyd Wright freedom men mean The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings. Frank Lloyd Wright mistake home sweet Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual. Frank Lloyd Wright artist responsibility life Architectural features of true democratic ground-freedom would rise naturally from topography, which means that buildings would all take on the nature and character of the ground on which in endless variety they would stand and be component part. Frank Lloyd Wright topography character mean Humanity to me is not a mob. A mob is a degeneration of humanity. A mob is humanity going the wrong way. Frank Lloyd Wright degeneration humanity way At night... the streets become rhythmical perspectives of glowing dotted lines, reflections hung upon them in the streets as the wistaria hangs its violet racemes on its trellis. The buildings are shimmering verticality, a gossamer veil, a festive scene-prop hanging there against the black sky to dazzle, entertain, amaze. Frank Lloyd Wright reflection new-york night There is nothing more uncommon than common sense. Frank Lloyd Wright common-sense knowledge thinking One war only breeds another. Frank Lloyd Wright war 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. Frank Lloyd Wright challenges beautiful thinking An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site. Frank Lloyd Wright bars boards tools I find that government can be a kind of gangsterism and is in Russia. And is likely to be in America if we don't take care of ourselves pretty carefully. Frank Lloyd Wright russia government america
