Frases de Frank Lloyd Wright

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“La arquitectura es el triunfo de la Imaginación Humana sobre materias, métodos, y hombres, para poner al hombre en la posesión de su propio mundo. Es por lo menos el patrón geométrico de cosas, de la vida, del mundo humano y social. Es en el mejor de los casos ese marco mágico de la realidad que a veces rozamos cuando utilizamos la palabra "orden.”

“Los edificios, como las personas, deben ser en primer lugar sinceros, deben ser auténticos, y además tan atractivos y bonitos como sea posible.”

“Los médicos tapan sus errores con tierra, los abogados con papeles y los arquitectos aconsejan poner plantas.”

“Lo único malo de la arquitectura son los arquitectos”

“Todo forma parte de un todo.”

“¿Cómo que de Estados Unidos? ¿Cómo que vivo? Yo soy el mayor arquitecto que ha habido jamás, olvidaos de los estados unidos, olvidaos de los vivos.”

“Se me ha acusado de decir que soy el mejor arquitecto del mundo, y si lo he dicho, no creo que haya sido demasiado arrogante.”

“Hemos de vivir con lujo, lo imprescindible siempre se consigue.”

“Cada casa es una misión, yo estoy construyendo casas que predicen el fin del presente orden social.”

“He cometido el pecado mortal de tener ideas en una democracia.”

“Yo nunca miro atrás.”

“Los edificios modernos son máquinas de carton, mecánicas, amaneradas, artificiales, sin alma.”

“P:¿Tiene usted miedo a la muerte?”

“R:Realmente, no. La muerte es una gran amiga”

“P:¿Cree usted en su inmortalidad?”

“R:Sí, en cierto modo, yo soy inmortal, seré inmortal. Para mí ser joven no tiene significado. Es algo que no puedes evitar, de ninguna manera. Porque ser joven es una cualidad, y si la tienes, nunca la pierdes. Y cuando te meten en la caja, ahí empieza tu inmortalidad.”

“La relación de los habitantes con el exterior llegó a ser más íntima; el paisaje y el edificio se convirtió en uno, más armonioso; y, en lugar de algo aislado instalado sin tener en cuenta el paisaje o la ubicación, el edificio se convirtió, inevitablemente, en un conjunto con el paisaje y la ubicación.”

“Consideren tan deseable construir un gallinero como una catedral. La dimensión del proyecto significa poco en arte, por encima de la cuestión monetaria. Lo que en realidad vale es la calidad del carácter. El carácter puede ser grande en lo pequeño, o pequeño en lo grande.”

“Estudia la naturaleza, ama la naturaleza, estate cerca de la naturaleza. ella nunca te fallará.”

“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.”

“I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist’s hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion.”

“The-Shadow-of-the-Wall–Primitive Instincts Still Alive”

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

“The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears — as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.”

“Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.”

“God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature and it has been said often by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And, I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.”

“A free America, democratic in the sense that our forefathers intended it to be, 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.”

“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.”

“Every great architect is — necessarily — a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.”

“The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of the world and remember, it will be a poet, not a scientist.”

“Here I am, Philip, am I indoors or am I out? Do I take my hat off or keep it on?”

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

“If you’re going to have centralization, why not have it!”

“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.”

“Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.”

“All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.”

“Respect should be earned by actions, and not acquired by years.”

“I never had much respect for the collector's mind.”

“Again: I found repeatedly confirmed that the inferior mind not only learns by comparison, but loosely confers its superlatives, while the superior mind which learns by analysis refrains from superlatives.”

“Resemblances are mistaken for influences.”

“Great art has always, at first, been controversial. Now that our means of communication have multiplied, how much more so today?”

“Genuine expressions as essence of the great art itself cannot be taught or imitated. Nor can they in any way be forced.”

“... the huge business of education is not on speaking terms with culture and such culture as we now have is not on speaking terms with reality.”

“No! is always easier to say than Yes.”

“As melody is in music ornament is in architecture revelation of the poetic-principle, with character and significance.”

“Intellectual is not necessarily intelligent either.”

“Poetic is prophetic insight.”

“The petty bias of personal taste can no longer hide either excrescence or spiritual poverty in the name of style.”