Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes About Architecture
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Space is the breath of art.
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Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use the word order.
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For America today organic architecture interprets (will eventually build) this local embodiment of human freedom. This natural architecture seeks spaciousness, grace and openness; lightness and strength so completely balanced and logical that it is a new integrity.
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If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it.
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All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
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When we come to understand architecture as the essential nature of all harmonious structure we will see that it is the architecture of music that inspired Bach and Beethoven, the architecture of painting that is inspiring Picasso as it inspired Velasquez, that it is the architecture of life itself that is the inspiration of the great poets and philosophers.
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If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
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Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?
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The sense of space within the reality of any building is a new concept wherever architecture is concerned. But it is essential ancient principle just the same and is not only necessary now but implied by the ideal of democracy itself.
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I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.
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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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Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.
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A building is not just a place to be but a way to be.
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When I see architecture that moves me, I hear music in my inner ear
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The dynamic ideal we call democracy, gradually growing up in the human heart for two-thousand five hundred years, at least, has now every opportunity to found the natural democratic state in these United States of America by way of natural economic order and a natural, or organic, architecture.
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Now, of course, architecture is a blind spot of our life in America today. How many millions of students go to the university to be educated? They come away conditioned, not enlightened, and they know nothing of architecture, although they have a department somewhere around -- probably in the basement.
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So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal and the teaching so much needed if we are to see the whole of life, and to now serve the whole of life, holding no traditions essential to the great TRADITION. Nor cherishing any preconceived form fixing upon us either past, present or future, but-instead-exalting the simple laws of common sense-or of super-sense if you prefer-determining form by way of the nature of materials.
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Architecture isman'sgreat sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as its source because great art isgreat life.
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So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal.
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I know we can't have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord.
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You can't make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it.
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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
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Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
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I think Miss Monroe as architecture is extremely good architecture, and she's a very natural actress, and a very good one.
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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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Building becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful, to put concordance, sympathy with nature, and all that into it. Then you have architecture.
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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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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.
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The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.
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A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.
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