~ Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes ~

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Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes


An American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1,000 projects, which resulted in more than 500 completed works.
Frank Lloyd Wright (born Frank Lincoln Wright, June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1,000 projects, which resulted in more than 500 completed works. Wright promoted organic architecture (exemplified by Fallingwater), was a leader of the Prairie School movement of architecture (exemplified by the Robie House, the Westcott House, and the Darwin D. Martin House), and developed the concept of the Usonian home (exemplified by the Rosenbaum House).

Here are some famous quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright.

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

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I believe in God only I spell it Nature.

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Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.

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Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.

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If it keeps up man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

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I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.

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A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

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An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking bar at the site.

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I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.

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Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.

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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Remy de Gourmont An idea is salvation by imagination.

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I know the price of success: dedication hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

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Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time his day his age.

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Early in life I had to choose between arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.