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.

Quote by Frank Lloyd Wright

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If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look...

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look...

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

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

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of...

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of...

The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be...

The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be...

I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.

I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.

Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you...

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you...

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

An idea is salvation by imagination.

An idea is salvation by imagination.

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in...

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in...

The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas

The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas

Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.

Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in...

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in...

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express...

No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express...

Space is the breath of art.

Space is the breath of art.

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often...

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often...

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to...

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to...