The longer that I live the more beautiful life becomes.
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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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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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
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An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.
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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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Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
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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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Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men.
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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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Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
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There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
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The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.
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As we work along our various ways, there takes shape within us, in some sort, an ideal – something we are to become – some work to be done. This, I think, is denied to very few, and we begin really to live only when the thrill of this ideality moves us in what we will to accomplish.
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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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Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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