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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTFreedom lies within.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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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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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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Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
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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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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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Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.
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The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
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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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Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
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Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
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Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.
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Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
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Limitation is always insult–not flattery.
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I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.
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