Frank Lloyd Wright: Trending quotes (page 2)

“The truth is more important than the facts.”

“Love is the virtue of the Heart,
Sincerity is the virtue of the Mind,
Decision is the virtue of the Will,
Courage is the virtue of the Spirit.”

“There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.”

“Youth is not an age thing. It's a quality. Once you've had it, you never lose it.”

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

“If it sells, it's art.”

“You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.”

“Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.”

“So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal.”

“Clear out 800,000 people and preserve it as a museum piece.”

“Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived.”

“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.”

“The-Shadow-of-the-Wall–Primitive Instincts Still Alive”

“I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city.”

“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.”

“Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.”

“God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature and it has been said often by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And, I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.”

“A free America, democratic in the sense that our forefathers intended it to be, means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call 'democracy' is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.”

“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.”