Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it. Frank Lloyd Wright More Quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright More Quotes From Frank Lloyd Wright 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 russiagovernmentamerica 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. Frank Lloyd Wright givingmenscience Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity. Frank Lloyd Wright artisticdiningopportunity No stream rises higher than its source Frank Lloyd Wright architectstreamssource All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable. Frank Lloyd Wright bad-assbadassarchitecture I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city. Frank Lloyd Wright citiesdoubtworld Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall. Frank Lloyd Wright menlifemean Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. Frank Lloyd Wright falling-waterpoetarchitecture Our forefathers were not only brave. I believe they were right. I believe that what they meant was that every man born had equal right to grow from scratch by way of his own power unhindered to the highest expression of himself possible to him. Frank Lloyd Wright expressionmenbelieve Doctors bury their mistakes, Architects cover them with ivy Frank Lloyd Wright doctorsivymistake The room within is the great fact about the building. Frank Lloyd Wright buildingfactsrooms To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor. Frank Lloyd Wright artistcitieslooks Architecture is the frame of human existence. We must dedicate this existence more to beauty. For if poetic principle has deserted us, how long are we going to last? Frank Lloyd Wright lastsbeautylong The tall modern office building is the machine pure and simple...the engine, the motor and the battleship the works of the century. Frank Lloyd Wright designofficesimple By playing down to the idea of the common man, dogmatic political authority exploits him... So the ideal of innate aristocracy of which hour forefathers dreamed is betrayed for votes in the name of democracy. Frank Lloyd Wright namesmenideas For America today organic architecture interprets (will eventually build) this local embodiment of human freedom. This natural architecture seeks spaciousness, grace and openness; lightness and strength so completely balanced and logical that it is a new integrity. Frank Lloyd Wright graceintegrityamerica I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty. Frank Lloyd Wright modestyhonestarrogance Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. The size of the project means little in art, beyond the money matter. It is the quality of the character that really counts. Frank Lloyd Wright charactermeanart If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. Frank Lloyd Wright buttonstechnologymen 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 Frank Lloyd Wright ornamentsrealizationmatter
