Wright, Frank Lloyd
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Wright, Frank Lloyd
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.
Wright, Frank Lloyd
Cities and City Life
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.
Wright, Frank Lloyd
Cities and City Life
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Wright, Frank Lloyd
Imagination
I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.
Wright, Frank Lloyd
Intelligence and Intellectuals
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.
Wright, Frank Lloyd
Machinery
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.
Wright, Frank Lloyd
Life and Living
The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
Wright, Frank Lloyd
Present
The truth is more important than the facts.
Wright, Frank Lloyd
Truth
TV -- chewing gum for the eyes.
Wright, Frank Lloyd
Television
Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
Wright, Frank Lloyd
Arts and Artists
All fine architectural values are human vales, else not valuable.
Wright, Frank Lloyd
Architecture
A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
Wright, Frank Lloyd
Architecture
Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasions to change.
Wright, Frank Lloyd
Arrogance
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
Wright, Frank Lloyd
Architecture
Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
Wright, Frank Lloyd
Youth