Best Organic Architecture Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“For America today organic architecture interprets (will eventually build) this local embodiment of human freedom. This natural architecture seeks spaciousness, grace and openness; lightness and strength so completely balanced and logical that it is a new integrity.”

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Book:1949-1959

Source: 1949-1959

“The dynamic ideal we call democracy, gradually growing up in the human heart for two-thousand five hundred years, at least, has now every opportunity to found the natural democratic state in these United States of America by way of natural economic order and a natural, or organic, architecture.”

“I really wanted to study with Bruce Goff [one of the masters of "organic architecture"] at the University of Oklahoma.”

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Author:Paul Laffoley

“A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.”

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Book:Modern Architecture: Being the Kahn Lectures for 1930

Source: Modern Architecture: Being the Kahn Lectures for 1930

“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”

“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.”

“The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.”

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Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“TV is chewing gum for the eyes.”

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Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.”

“Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it.”

“'Think in simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole to its parts in simplest terms, getting back to first principles.”

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Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.”

“Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.”

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Book:Frank Lloyd Wright

Source: Frank Lloyd Wright

“The space within becomes the reality of the building.”

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Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.”

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Book:The Essential Frank Lloyd Wright: Critical Writings on Architecture

Source: The Essential Frank Lloyd Wright: Critical Writings on Architecture

“The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.”

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Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.”

“There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.”

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Author:Ernest Dimnet

“We've been fighting from the beginning for organic architecture. That is, architecture where the whole is to the part as the part is to the whole, and where the nature of materials, the nature of the purpose, the nature of the entire performance becomes a necessity-architecture of democracy.”

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Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived.”

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Book:Frank Lloyd Wright on architecture: selected writings 1894-1940

Source: Frank Lloyd Wright on architecture: selected writings 1894-1940

“So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal and the teaching so much needed if we are to see the whole of life, and to now serve the whole of life, holding no traditions essential to the great TRADITION. Nor cherishing any preconceived form fixing upon us either past, present or future, but-instead-exalting the simple laws of common sense-or of super-sense if you prefer-determining form by way of the nature of materials.”

Source: The Future of Architecture

“If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it.”

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Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal.”

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Book:The Future of Architecture

Source: The Future of Architecture

“If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.”

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Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“No stream rises higher than its source”

Source Higher Streams Architect Organic Architecture

Book:The Future of Architecture

Source: The Future of Architecture

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