(1867–1959)
U.S. architect, interior designer, writer, and educator
Frank Lloyd Wright
It has been said that were I three inches taller than 5' 8½" all my houses would have been quite different in proportion. Probably.
Frank Lloyd Wright: An Autobiography (Petaluma, CA: Pomegranate Communications, Inc., 2005), 141.
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?
Frank Lloyd Wright: An Autobiography (Petaluma, CA: Pomegranate Communications, Inc., 2005), 36.
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.
Frank Lloyd Wright: An Autobiography (Petaluma, CA: Pomegranate Communications, Inc., 2005), 348.