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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTA man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn’t afterward.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
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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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There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
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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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A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.
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I never design a building before I’ve seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
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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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The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.
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I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
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Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge.
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Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.
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An idea is salvation by imagination.
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The room within is the great fact about the building.
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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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