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.
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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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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Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge.
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If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
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Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
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Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
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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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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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Building becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful, to put concordance, sympathy with nature, and all that into it. Then you have architecture.
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I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.
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Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
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The measure of its nobility and its continuity is its depth of feeling and its sincerity. And if it has that quality, it stands.
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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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I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.
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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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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 longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
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Nature is my manifestation of God.
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The Machine is Intellect mastering the drudgery of the earth that the plastic art may live; that the margin of leisure and strength by which man’s life upon earth can be made beautiful, may immeasurably widen; its function ultimately to emancipate human expression!
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The longer that I live the more beautiful life becomes.
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The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
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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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The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
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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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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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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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Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.
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