May 10, 1998

The Wright Stuff

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.
--Frank Lloyd Wright

Less is only more where more is no good.
--Frank Lloyd Wright

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site
--Frank Lloyd Wright

A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
--Frank Lloyd Wright

Space. The continual becoming: invisible fountain from which all rhythms flow and to which they must pass. Beyond time or infinity.
--Frank Lloyd Wright

I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture." (1931)
--Frank Lloyd Wright

"Move the chair" -- Wright's response to a client who phoned him to complain of rain leaking through the roof of the house onto the dining table.
--Frank Lloyd Wright

I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
--Frank Lloyd Wright

Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.
--Frank Lloyd Wright

Posted by foote at 03:33 PM