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1 " An idea is salvation by imagination "
― Frank Lloyd Wright
2 " I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. "
― Frank Lloyd Wright , Truth Against the World: Frank Lloyd Wright Speaks for an Organic Architecture
3 " The truth is more important than the facts. "
4 " A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working. "
5 " If it sells, it's art. "
6 " Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. "
7 " There is nothing more uncommon than common sense. "
8 " Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust. "
9 " Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been sorry. "
10 " Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change. "
11 " Philosophy is to the mind of the architect as eyesight to his steps. The Term 'genius' when applied to him simply means a man who understands what others only know about. A poet, artist or architect, necessarily 'understands' in this sense and is likely, if not careful, to have the term 'genius' applied to him; in which case he will no longer be thought human, trustworthy or companionable. Whatever may be his medium of expression he utters truth with manifest beauty of thought. If he is an architect, his building is natural. In him, philosophy and genius live by each other, but the combination is subject to popular suspicion and appellation 'genius' likely to settle him--so far as the public is concerned. "
― Frank Lloyd Wright , A Testament
12 " Television is chewing gum for the eyes. "
13 " Space is the breath of art. "
14 " A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward. "
15 " The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. "
16 " Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed. "
17 " Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change. "
18 " A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. "
19 " As we live and as we are, Simplicity - with a capital "S" - is difficult to comprehend nowadays. We are no longer truly simple. We no longer live in simple terms or places. Life is a more complex struggle now. It is now valiant to be simple: a courageous thing to even want to be simple. It is a spiritual thing to comprehend what simplicity means. "
― Frank Lloyd Wright ,
20 " ...pseudo-scientific minds, like those of the scientist or the painter in love with the pictorial, both teaching as they were taught to become architects, practice a kind of building which is inevitably the result of conditioning of the mind instead of enlightenment. By this standard means also, the old conformities are appearing as new but only in another guise, more insidious because they are especially convenient to the standardizations of the modernist plan-factory and wholly ignorant of anything but public expediency. So in our big cities architecture like religion is helpless under the blows of science and the crushing weight of conformity--caused to gravitate to the masquerade in our streets in the name of "modernity." Fearfully concealing lack of initial courage or fundamental preparation or present merit: reactionary. Institutional public influences calling themselves conservative are really no more than the usual political stand-patters or social lid-sitters. As a feature of our cultural life architecture takes a backward direction, becomes less truly radical as our life itself grows more sterile, more conformist. All this in order to be safe?How soon will "we the people" awake to the fact that the philosophy of natural or intrinsic building we are here calling organic is at one with our freedom--as declared, 1776? "
