Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
Television is chewing gum for the eyes. The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect. The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty. The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind. The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it. The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes. The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. 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. The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope. The space within becomes the reality of the building. The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. The truth is more important than the facts. There is nothing more uncommon than common sense. "Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles. Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles. 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. Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic. TV is chewing gum for the eyes. Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll Le Corbusier go write four books about it. Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
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