Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes

Extreme complication is contrary to art.

I have no fondness for pure form at all.

In art economy is always beauty.

A good painting is a lot like a good joke: you need to know when to stop, too many 'punchlines and you will have gone too far.

Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

Strike the right balance between your outfit and makeup. Make a statement with one, not both.

The best artists know what to leave out.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.

When you play Mozart, it's so clean, it's so simple. It's the body naked.

Even if virtually anything can be art, there are levels of quality.

Simplicity is an exact mediumbetween too little and too much.

And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.

Not all art is great; most of it's rubbish.

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.

I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.

Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses fitness, the perfect fulfillment of function.