Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes - Page 5

• New York is the biggest mouth in the world. It appears to be prime example of the herd instinct, leading the universal urban conspiracy to beguile man from his birthright (the good ground), to hang him by his eyebrows from skyhooks above hard pavement, to crucify him, sell him, or be sold by him.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  New York, Men, Eyebrows

  Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (1995). "1949-1959", Rizzoli International Publications

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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.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Wall, Artist, Vaccines

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• I find that government can be a kind of gangsterism and is in Russia. And is likely to be in America if we don't take care of ourselves pretty carefully.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Government, America, Russia

  Fuente: www.counterpunch.org

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

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Technology, Men, Buttons

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you're an atheist, pretend how God would do it.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Atheist, Thinking, Creative

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• Television is bubble-gum for the mind.

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  Mind, Television, Gum

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• La democracia es lo contrario del totalitarismo, el comunismo, el fascismo o la mobocracia.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Opposites, Democracy, Communism

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1995). “Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1949-1959”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• Our forefathers were not only brave. I believe they were right. I believe that what they meant was that every man born had equal right to grow from scratch by way of his own power unhindered to the highest expression of himself possible to him.

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  Creer, Hombres, Expresión

  Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (1995). "1949-1959", Rizzoli International Publications

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• The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of the world and remember, it will be a poet, not a scientist.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Taken, One Day, World

  "Morrow's International Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations". Book by Jonathon Green, 1982.

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• La naturaleza nunca deja de estar serena, ni siquiera en medio de una tormenta.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Thunderstorm, Serene

  Fuente: www.counterpunch.org

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• The room within is the great fact about the building.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Rooms, Facts, Building

  Frank Lloyd Wright (2008). “Modern Architecture: Being the Kahn Lectures for 1930”, p.66, Princeton University Press

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• 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.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Sweet, Mistake, Home

  N.Y. Times Magazine, 4 Oct. 1953

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• Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Artist, Building, Architect

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• Observar la sección transversal de cualquier plano de una gran ciudad es observar algo parecido a la sección de un tumor fibroso.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Artist, Cities, Looks

  Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (1995). "1949-1959", Rizzoli International Publications

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• I know we can't have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord.

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  Architecture, Landlord, Knows

  1932 In Frederick Gutheim (ed) Frank Lloyd Wright on Architecture: selected writings (1894-1940).

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• Architecture is the frame of human existence. We must dedicate this existence more to beauty. For if poetic principle has deserted us, how long are we going to last?

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  Beauty, Long, Lasts

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• Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Life, Mean, Men

  Frank Lloyd Wright, Edgar Kaufmann, Ben Raeburn (1960). "Frank Lloyd Wright: escritos y edificios".

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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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  Lying, Simple, Ideas

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• At night... the streets become rhythmical perspectives of glowing dotted lines, reflections hung upon them in the streets as the wistaria hangs its violet racemes on its trellis. The buildings are shimmering verticality, a gossamer veil, a festive scene-prop hanging there against the black sky to dazzle, entertain, amaze.

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  New York, Reflection, Night

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• Doctors bury their mistakes, Architects cover them with ivy

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Mistake, Doctors, Ivy

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• The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.

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  Hate, Heart, Love Life

  "Biografía/ Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Vida, Naturaleza, Niños

  Frank Lloyd Wright, Andrew Devane, Frederick Albert Gutheim (1975). “In the cause of architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright: essays”, Architectural Record Books

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• Love of an idea is the love of God.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Ideas, God Love

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• We do not learn so much by our successes as we learn by failures - our own and others! Especially if we see the failures properly corrected.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Si

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1994). “Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings, 1939-1949”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly, but take every building to pieces, and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the curious from the beautiful. Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. 'Think simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Beautiful, Thinking, Challenges

  Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (1992). “Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1930-1932”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns

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