7 Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes on Cities

Frank Lloyd Wright quotes on cities

3. It is where life is fundamental and free that men develop the vision needed to reveal the human soul in the blossoms it puts forth. ... In a great workshop like Chicago this creative power germinates, even though the brutality and selfish preoccupation of the place drive it elsewhere for bread. Men of this type have loved Chicago, have worked for her, and believed in her. The hardest thing they have to bear is her shame. These men could live and work here when to live and work in New York would stifle their genius and fill their purse.... New York still believes that art should be imported; brought over in ships; and is a quite contented market place. So while New York has reproduced much and produced nothing, Chicago's achievements in architecture have gained world-wide recognition as a distinctively American architecture.

7. I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city.

10. New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.

18. New York is the biggest mouth in the world. It appears to be prime example of the herd instinct, leading the universal urban conspiracy to beguile man from his birthright (the good ground), to hang him by his eyebrows from skyhooks above hard pavement, to crucify him, sell him, or be sold by him.

20. To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

40. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world. (1939)

59. It (New York City) is a great monument to the power of money and greed:a race for rent.