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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTYouth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
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Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.
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The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.
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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 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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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 mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
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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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Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
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I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
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A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advice his clients to plant vines.
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One war only breeds another.
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Imitate nothing except principle.
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An idea is salvation by imagination.
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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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