Frank Lloyd Wright Quotations | Page 2

If you're going to have centralization, why not have it!

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

Doctors bury their mistakes, Architects cover them with ivy

Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly, but take every building to pieces, and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the curious from the beautiful. Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. 'Think simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas.

I'll bridge these hills with graceful arches

The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.

On this simple unit-system [of building blocks] ruled on the low table-top all these forms were combined by the child into imaginative patter. Design was recreation! ...The virtue of all this lay in the awakening of the childmind to rhythmic structure in Nature - giving the child a sense of innate cause-and-effect otherwise far beyond child-comprehension.

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.

The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction site.