A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advice his clients to plant vines.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTGive me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
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You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.
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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.
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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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I never design a building before I’ve seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
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Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
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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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Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.
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Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
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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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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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Imitate nothing except principle.
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Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
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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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An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.
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