The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTNo house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
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Imitate nothing except principle.
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An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.
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An idea is salvation by imagination.
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Now a work of art is a work of nature, but it is a work of human nature. It is a work of the mind: and it’s a work of the mind in circumstances for an occasion which, to which, for which, and which it may be supremely natural and simple and effective.
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We have no longer an outside and an inside as two separate things. Now the outside may come inside and the inside may and does go outside. They are of each other. Form and function thus become one in design and execution if the nature of materials and method and purpose are all in unison.
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The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.
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If it sells, it’s art.
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Nature is my manifestation of God.
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Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
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Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
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Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation.
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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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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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