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 mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
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Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.
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I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.
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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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Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm.
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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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Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation.
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You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
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Life is truth.
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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 belief in a thing makes it happen.
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I don’t know whether you are a saint or a fool said my lawyer. I replied Is there a difference?
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Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
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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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Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.
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