Frank Lloyd Wright (1867 – 1959)
American architect.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal.
The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears — as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.
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.
Here I am, Philip, am I indoors or am I out? Do I take my hat off or keep it on?
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.
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
His place in history is secure. His continuing influence is assured. This country's architectural achievements would be unthinkable without him. He has been a teacher to us all.
So long, Frank Lloyd Wright.
I can't believe your song is gone so soon.
I barely learned the tune
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. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. 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.
I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city.
He's the greatest architect of the nineteenth century.
Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.
If you’re going to have centralization, why not have it!
Among the great modern architects, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Louis Kahn were arguably deists. ... Wright’s use of the word “nature” did not mean only what-we-find-outdoors. It was something deeper. Wright knew that when people speak of the “nature of things” they mean their very essence, the that-which-makes-them-what- they-are, which is always and only one step away from that-who-makes- them-what-they-are. ... Wright thought not that he was God but that he brought or allowed God into the world through what he did, creating and designing. ... Wright actually thought himself a prophet, which of course is a different to being God, or an angel. ... bringing God into the world in an act of something like mid-wifery from the womb of nature, is not at all Moses-like. It is not a bringing down of Law from on high after personal coaching from God, but a bringing forth of a God already there in potential. There is no presumption of having seen or met God of the Bible. One makes the God one believes in happen.
No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.