I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.
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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I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.
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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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A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.
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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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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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Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation.
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Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
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Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge.
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The room within is the great fact about the building.
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Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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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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I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.
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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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There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
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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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