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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.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Government Result
Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Beautiful Greatness Myself Thinking World
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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Best Friendship Man Material Respect Tree
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 WRIGHT

Defeat Human Ideal Live Planning
Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Art Greatness Opportunity
The room within is the great fact about the building.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Fact Greatness Room
A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Appearance Easy Growth Nature
Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Beautiful Human Man Material Worth
Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Grow Up Old Youth
Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
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Children Earth Nature Sun
Life is truth.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Life One Liner Truth
I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Choice Honesty 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
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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Action Best Move On Regard Yourself
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Beautiful Life Live Myself Philosophy
Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Art Food Philosophy

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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