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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTBring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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One war only breeds another.
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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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Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men.
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A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.
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The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.
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Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.
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Nature is my manifestation of God.
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Each material has its own message.
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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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The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
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I’ll bridge these hills with graceful arches
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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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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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Youth is not an age thing. It’s a quality. Once you’ve had it, you never lose it.
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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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Space is the breath of art.
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Limitation is always insult–not flattery.
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The best friend of earth of man is the tree.
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We have no longer an outside and an inside as two separate things. Now the outside may come inside and the inside may and does go outside. They are of each other. Form and function thus become one in design and execution if the nature of materials and method and purpose are all in unison.
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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’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.
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Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
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An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.
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I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.
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Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.
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