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The measure of a man’s culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.

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

Change Choice Honesty Life Myself
Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Lose World
The Machine is Intellect mastering the drudgery of the earth that the plastic art may live; that the margin of leisure and strength by which man’s life upon earth can be made beautiful, may immeasurably widen; its function ultimately to emancipate human expression!
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Art Beautiful Expression Human Intellectual Life Live Strength Technology
A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn’t afterward.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Age Drink Fool Man
Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Eyes Technology
Early in my career, I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility… I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I’ve never been sorry.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Career Choice Honesty Myself Regret
Space is the breath of art.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Art Breathe Space
A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Feeling Himself Oneself
The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Heart Inspirational Mindset Success
The primitive ideals of centralization are now largely self-defeating. Human crucifixion by vertically on the now static checkerboard of the old city is pattern already in agony; yet for lack of any organic planning it is going on and on-not living, but rather hanging by its eyebrows from its nervous system.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Defeat Human Ideal Live Planning
Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Children Myself
Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Material Nature
We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Creation Friendship Ourselves Philosophy
An idea is inevitably a coordination. It is a coming together of something that is separate or disorganized or incomplete. With an idea you begin to feel into the nature of that incompleteness.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Beginning Feeling Idea Ideas Nature Togetherness
Building becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful, to put concordance, sympathy with nature, and all that into it. Then you have architecture.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Beautiful Business Man Mindset Nature
Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Greatness Heart Love Virtue

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