An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTFreedom lies within.
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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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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The truth is more important than the facts.
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We have no longer an outside and an inside as two separate things. Now the outside may come inside and the inside may and does go outside. They are of each other. Form and function thus become one in design and execution if the nature of materials and method and purpose are all in unison.
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The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.
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Limitation is always insult–not flattery.
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
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Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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Less is more only when more is too much.
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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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Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.
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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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The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
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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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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 best friend of earth of man is the tree.
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Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm.
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One war only breeds another.
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Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
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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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Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
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Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
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Imitate nothing except principle.
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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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The belief in a thing makes it happen.
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