Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
Quote by Frank Lloyd Wright
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Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
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Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
- Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
- Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
- Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
- Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
- Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
- A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
- God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
- A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.
- 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.
- An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
Best Quotes
- Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.
- There is no sin greater than ignorance.
- Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.
- There is only one secure foundation: a genuine, deep relationship with Jesus Christ, which will carry you through any and all turmoil. No matter what storms are raging all around, you'll stand firm if you stand on His love.
- The U.S. has since the end of World War II had an answer - we stand for free peoples and free markets, we are willing to support and defend them - we will sustain a balance of power that favors freedom.
- Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
- Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
- God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
- If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
- If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.