Quotes by Wright, Frank Lloyd

"An idea is salvation by imagination."

Wright, Frank Lloyd on imagination
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"I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up."

Wright, Frank Lloyd on intelligence and intellectuals   

"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."

Wright, Frank Lloyd on life
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"All fine architectural values are human vales, else not valuable."

Wright, Frank Lloyd on architecture   

"A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines."

Wright, Frank Lloyd on architecture
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"The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines."

Wright, Frank Lloyd on architecture   

"Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasions to change."

Wright, Frank Lloyd on arrogance
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"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."

Wright, Frank Lloyd on machinery   

"Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them."

Wright, Frank Lloyd on art   

"The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope."

Wright, Frank Lloyd on present   

"TV -- chewing gum for the eyes."

Wright, Frank Lloyd on vision   

"The truth is more important than the facts."

Wright, Frank Lloyd on truth   

"Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances."

Wright, Frank Lloyd on youth   

"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."

Wright, Frank Lloyd on life   

"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."

Wright, Frank Lloyd on life   

"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."

Wright, Frank Lloyd on atheism   

"Oh Rat's"

Wright, Frank Lloyd on architecture   

"Why Deal with the Coupon when you can have the Genuine Bond"

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