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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.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Happiness Life Luxury Necessary Need
Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Beautiful Human Man Material Worth
The best friend of earth of man is the tree.
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Friendship Man Tree
Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
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Children Earth Nature Sun
There is no true understanding of any art without some knowledge of its philosophy. Only then does its meaning come clear.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Art Knowledge Philosophy True Understand
Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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Art Food Philosophy
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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Beautiful Help Life Live People Reason Understand World
Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
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Lose World
Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.
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Government Result
Nature is my manifestation of God.
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God Nature Religious Spiritual
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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Beautiful Ignorance Life Live Myself Perspective Philosophy Yourself
A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advice his clients to plant vines.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Advice Mistake Plant
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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Art Human Mindset Nature Simplicity
An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Business Tool
Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Children Myself
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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Goodness Lie Simplicity Strength Truth Yourself

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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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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