Quote #57

I've been accused of saying I was the greatest architect in the world and if I had said so, I don't think it would be very arrogant, because I don't believe there are many [great architects] - if any. For 500 years what we call architecture has been phony.

More from Frank Lloyd Wright

  1. I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
  2. If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
  3. I wouldn't mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.
  4. It (New York City) is a great monument to the power of money and greed:a race for rent.
  5. I would like to have a free architecture. Architecture that belonged where you see it standing - and is a grace to the landscape instead of…
  6. Less is only more where more is no good.
  7. I think Ms. Monroe's architecture is extremely good architecture.
  8. Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism: but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.

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