Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes

I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.

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

The best and the worst thing about fashion is that anyone can do it. But because fashion can be the most unintellectual thing, you have to turn it into an intellectual exercise just for your own sanity. You have to start with a conceit.

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.

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.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!

I always say that a poet loves the world, and the prose writer needs to create an alternative world.

The engineers of the future will be poets.

One of my secret instructions to myself as a poet is "Whatever you do, don't be boring."

Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet

Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.

I love the creative process and being able to build something out of nothing.

Talent works, genius creates.

It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.

I think architecture has to be a gift.

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.

It's amazing to see things that are suggested in the book fully developed and so brilliantly realized through the artistry of the designers.

Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.

What drives the creative person is that we see it all.

Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages across that connect to the world in ways that seem familiar but are different.

He who does not know how to create should not know.

Fashion isn't interesting when it comes from an uninspired place.