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 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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Limitation is always insult–not flattery.
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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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Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
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Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm.
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You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
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We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.
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The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you’re an atheist, pretend how God would do it.
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Simplicity and Repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
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Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
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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.
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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.
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They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.
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Each material has its own message.
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Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
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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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