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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTWe create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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The 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!
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Building becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful, to put concordance, sympathy with nature, and all that into it. Then you have architecture.
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More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.
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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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The longer that I live the more beautiful life becomes.
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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 thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
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Less is more only when more is too much.
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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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There is no true understanding of any art without some knowledge of its philosophy. Only then does its meaning come clear.
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The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.
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An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.
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They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.
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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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An idea is salvation by imagination.
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