I never design a building before I’ve seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTAs we work along our various ways, there takes shape within us, in some sort, an ideal – something we are to become – some work to be done. This, I think, is denied to very few, and we begin really to live only when the thrill of this ideality moves us in what we will to accomplish.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn’t afterward.
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As we work along our various ways, there takes shape within us, in some sort, an ideal – something we are to become – some work to be done. This, I think, is denied to very few, and we begin really to live only when the thrill of this ideality moves us in what we will to accomplish.
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Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
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Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
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The measure of its nobility and its continuity is its depth of feeling and its sincerity. And if it has that quality, it stands.
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The mission of an architect is to help people understand how to make life more beautiful, the world a better one for living in, and to give reason, rhyme, and meaning to life.
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There is no true understanding of any art without some knowledge of its philosophy. Only then does its meaning come clear.
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Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.
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Limitation is always insult–not flattery.
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Life is truth.
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A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.
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There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.
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Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
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The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
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