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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTI don’t know whether you are a saint or a fool said my lawyer. I replied Is there a difference?
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
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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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Imitate nothing except principle.
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More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.
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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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A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.
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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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I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.
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Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
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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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Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
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Less is more only when more is too much.
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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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Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.
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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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