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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.”

Frank Lloyd Wright

The Future of Architecture (1953)

“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

As quoted in The Star (1959) and Morrow's International Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations (1982) by Jonathon Green.

“Here I am, Philip, am I indoors or am I out? Do I take my hat off or keep it on?”

Frank Lloyd Wright

On Philip Johnson’s glass house, as quoted in Architectural Digest (November 1985)

“New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.”

Frank Lloyd Wright

On New York and Pittsburgh, The New York Times (27 November 1955)

“If you’re going to have centralization, why not have it!”

Frank Lloyd Wright

On his designs for "The Illinois" a 528-story Chicago office building (10 September 1956)

“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.”

Frank Lloyd Wright

“Social and Economic Disease”
The Living City (1958)

“Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.”

Frank Lloyd Wright

As quoted in The Duality of Vision : Genius and Versatility in the Arts (1970) by Walter Sorrell, p. 28

“All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.”

Frank Lloyd Wright

“Recapitulation”
The Living City (1958)

“I never had much respect for the collector's mind.”

Frank Lloyd Wright

A Testament (1957)

“Again: I found repeatedly confirmed that the inferior mind not only learns by comparison, but loosely confers its superlatives, while the superior mind which learns by analysis refrains from superlatives.”

Frank Lloyd Wright

A Testament (1957)

“Resemblances are mistaken for influences.”

Frank Lloyd Wright

A Testament (1957)

“Great art has always, at first, been controversial. Now that our means of communication have multiplied, how much more so today?”

Frank Lloyd Wright

A Testament (1957)

“Genuine expressions as essence of the great art itself cannot be taught or imitated. Nor can they in any way be forced.”

Frank Lloyd Wright

A Testament (1957)

“... the huge business of education is not on speaking terms with culture and such culture as we now have is not on speaking terms with reality.”

Frank Lloyd Wright

A Testament (1957)

“No! is always easier to say than Yes.”

Frank Lloyd Wright

A Testament (1957)

“As melody is in music ornament is in architecture revelation of the poetic-principle, with character and significance.”

Frank Lloyd Wright

A Testament (1957)

“Intellectual is not necessarily intelligent either.”

Frank Lloyd Wright

A Testament (1957)

“Poetic is prophetic insight.”

Frank Lloyd Wright

A Testament (1957)

“The petty bias of personal taste can no longer hide either excrescence or spiritual poverty in the name of style.”

Frank Lloyd Wright

A Testament (1957)