An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTNow 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.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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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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You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
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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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The best friend of earth of man is the tree.
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Imitate nothing except principle.
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Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
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The room within is the great fact about the building.
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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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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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I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.
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A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.
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More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.
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Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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