(1867–1959)
U.S. architect, interior designer, writer, and educator“It has been said that were I three inches taller than 5' 8½" all my houses would have been quite different in proportion. Probably.”
more infosource: Frank Lloyd Wright: An Autobiography (Petaluma, CA: Pomegranate Communications, Inc., 2005), 141.
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category: architecture, height, proportion
medium: Autobiography
“Is anything more pleasurable to the mind than unsullied paper? The studious comparisons and selection of ‘stock’ in textures and colors of cards and paper?”
more infosource: Frank Lloyd Wright: An Autobiography (Petaluma, CA: Pomegranate Communications, Inc., 2005), 36.
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category: card, letter, paper, texture
medium: Autobiography
“Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, that amazing revolution in tumult and splendor of sound built on four tones based upon a rhythm a child could play on the piano with one finger. Supreme imagination reared the four repeated tones, simple rhythms, into a great symphonic poem that is probably the noblest thought-built edifice in our world.”
more infosource: Frank Lloyd Wright: An Autobiography (Petaluma, CA: Pomegranate Communications, Inc., 2005), 348.
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category: architecture, Beethoven, genius, music, symphony
medium: Autobiography
Frank Lloyd Wright