Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTThe 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.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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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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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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One war only breeds another.
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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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Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust.
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I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.
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A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.
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You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
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The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.
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An idea is salvation by imagination.
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Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can’t nail them to a wall.
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Imitate nothing except principle.
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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.
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Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
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A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advice his clients to plant vines.
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The belief in a thing makes it happen.
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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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Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.
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Space is the breath of art.
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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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Limitation is always insult–not flattery.
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Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
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I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.
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Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
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All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
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