There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTEarly 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.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
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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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Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
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The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
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Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
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I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.
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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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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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Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can’t nail them to a wall.
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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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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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Nature is my manifestation of God.
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.
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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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