Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes

Creative instinct is personal.

Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas.

It is the function of creative man to perceive and to connect the seemingly unconnected.

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.

Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling creativity of the kind practiced by great artists, directors, writers, musicians, actors, who know how to touch a chord in humans everywhere.

Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made.

Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do.

If you're a creative person, what inspires you is always changing; it's always shifting.

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

I'm interested in creating new work.

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

The movie business is not something that can come from the brain. It really comes from the soul and the heart.

To me, architecture is an art, naturally, and it isn't architecture unless it's alive. Alive is what art is. If it's not alive, it's dead, and it's not art.

Critics are not creators. They rarely write great novels, invent new technologies, or come up with a great business idea.

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

A human being is not a machine. Especially when it comes to creating.

I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart.

Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs.

Photographers tend to have the non-judgmental gene

A loving heart is an inventive one.

Simply, the majority of the most interesting filmmakers are the ones confronted with difficult situations. Their creativity blows a hole in the wall and lets in the light.

The key to artistry is being able to say stuff the way other people can't.