Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTA doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advice his clients to plant vines.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm.
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Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
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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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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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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 best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.
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The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.
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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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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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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
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The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.
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Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
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Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
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Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge.
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The belief in a thing makes it happen.
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Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation.
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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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I never design a building before I’ve seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
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The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.
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More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.
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The truth is more important than the facts.
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Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
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All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
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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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Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
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We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.
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