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Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes: 11

  • Space is the breath of art.

  • Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

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

  • The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

  • Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

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

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

    Truth Against the World: Frank Lloyd Wright Speaks for an Organic Architecture
  • An idea is salvation by imagination

  • As we live and as we are, Simplicity - with a capital "S"- is difficult to comprehend nowadays. We are no longer truly simple. We no longer live in simple terms or places. Life is a more complex struggle now. It is now valiant to be simple: a courageous thing to even want to be simple. It is a spiritual thing to comprehend what simplicity means.

    The Natural House
  • The truth is more important than the facts.

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