11 Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes on Art

Frank Lloyd Wright quotes on art

2. Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.

22. I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist's hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion.

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

42. 'Form follows function' - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

53. I think Ms. Monroe's architecture is extremely good architecture.

55. 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.

69. Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.

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

71. Space is the breath of art.

85. True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building, or a park. At its best it is an emphasis of structure, a realization in graceful terms of the nature of that which is ornamented.

93. So long, Frank Lloyd Wright. I can't believe your song is gone so soon. I barely learned the tune