An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.
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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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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Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
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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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You will find Goodness and Truth everywhere you go. If you have to choose, choose Truth. For that is closest to Earth. Keep close to the Earth, in that lies strength. Simplicity of heart is just as necessary for an architect as for a farmer or a minister if the architect is going to build great buildings.
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If it sells, it’s art.
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The longer that I live the more beautiful life becomes.
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Imitate nothing except principle.
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Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
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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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I never design a building before I’ve seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
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Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
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A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn’t afterward.
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All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
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Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.
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