Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.”

“Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.”

“I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.”

“Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.”

“Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.”

“The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.”