Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
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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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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The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
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Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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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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Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
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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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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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No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
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If it sells, it’s art.
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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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Simplicity and Repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
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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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Philip Johnson is a highbrow. A highbrow is a man educated beyond his capacity. His house is a box of glass — not shelter. The meaning of the word shelter includes privacy.
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Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
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