One war only breeds another.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTThe Machine is Intellect mastering the drudgery of the earth that the plastic art may live; that the margin of leisure and strength by which man’s life upon earth can be made beautiful, may immeasurably widen; its function ultimately to emancipate human expression!
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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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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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
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Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
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The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.
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The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.
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Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.
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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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Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
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Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm.
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More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.
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Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
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Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation.
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Now a work of art is a work of nature, but it is a work of human nature. It is a work of the mind: and it’s a work of the mind in circumstances for an occasion which, to which, for which, and which it may be supremely natural and simple and effective.
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Limitation is always insult–not flattery.
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Space is the breath of art.
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The measure of a man’s culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.
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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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Youth is not an age thing. It’s a quality. Once you’ve had it, you never lose it.
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Less is more only when more is too much.
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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 longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
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Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
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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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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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