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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.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
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Children Earth Nature Sun
If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
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Beautiful Investment Life Yourself
Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.
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Art Greatness Opportunity
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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Best Friendship Man Material Respect Tree
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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Appearance Easy Growth Nature
An idea is salvation by imagination.
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Ideas Imagination
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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Defeat Human Ideal Live Planning
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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Beautiful Goodness Hurt
I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.
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Greatness Myself Nature Religious
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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Action Best Move On Regard Yourself
One war only breeds another.
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One Liner Oneself War
The room within is the great fact about the building.
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Fact Greatness Room
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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Creation Friendship Ourselves Philosophy
An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.
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Business Tool
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
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Life Luxury Necessary Willing
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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Himself Man Nature Philosophy Worth

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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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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