You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTLife is truth.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
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Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge.
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Life is truth.
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Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.
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Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
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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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All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
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The truth is more important than the facts.
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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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An idea is salvation by imagination.
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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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A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.
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The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
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Freedom lies within.
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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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Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
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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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An idea is inevitably a coordination. It is a coming together of something that is separate or disorganized or incomplete. With an idea you begin to feel into the nature of that incompleteness.
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There is no true understanding of any art without some knowledge of its philosophy. Only then does its meaning come clear.
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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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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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The best friend of earth of man is the tree.
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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
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Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.
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The best thing to do is go as far out as you can get… what you regard as ‘too far’-and when others follow, as they will, move on.
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