A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTMaybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.
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Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
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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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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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Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm.
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Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.
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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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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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Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
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You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.
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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
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Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.
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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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There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
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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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