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 WRIGHTThe only thing wrong with architecture is architects.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.
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One war only breeds another.
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Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
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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.
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Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
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No 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.
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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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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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A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.
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Space is the breath of art.
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The best friend of earth of man is the tree.
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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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Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.
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The longer that I live the more beautiful life becomes.
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Limitation is always insult–not flattery.
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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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Philip Johnson is a highbrow. A highbrow is a man educated beyond his capacity. His house is a box of glass — not shelter. The meaning of the word shelter includes privacy.
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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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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.
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Each material has its own message.
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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.
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Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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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!
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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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The truth is more important than the facts.
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Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm.
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