Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTThe human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
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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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Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.
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Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men.
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Freedom lies within.
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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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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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The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
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I never design a building before I’ve seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
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Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation.
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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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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
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Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.
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The best thing to do is go as far out as you can get… what you regard as ‘too far’-and when others follow, as they will, move on.
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Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge.
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Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.
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The truth is more important than the facts.
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If it sells, it’s art.
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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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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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Limitation is always insult–not flattery.
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You will find Goodness and Truth everywhere you go. If you have to choose, choose Truth. For that is closest to Earth. Keep close to the Earth, in that lies strength. Simplicity of heart is just as necessary for an architect as for a farmer or a minister if the architect is going to build great buildings.
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Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
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Youth is not an age thing. It’s a quality. Once you’ve had it, you never lose 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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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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