Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
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Frank Lloyd Wright
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About Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright Sr. was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator. He designed more than 1,000 structures over a creative period of 70 years. Wright played a key role in the architectural movements of the twentieth century, influencing architects worldwide through his works and mentoring hundreds of apprentices in his Taliesin Fellowship. Wright believed in designing in harmony with humanity and the environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture. This philosophy was exe…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Frank Lloyd WrightSimplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
The truth is more important than the facts.
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.
Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.
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Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
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 …
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
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.
Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.
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 …
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.