Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTBureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can’t nail them to a wall.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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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.
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Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
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Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
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Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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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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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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A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advice his clients to plant vines.
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Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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The mission of an architect is to help people understand how to make life more beautiful, the world a better one for living in, and to give reason, rhyme, and meaning to life.
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Life is truth.
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A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.
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An idea is inevitably a coordination. It is a coming together of something that is separate or disorganized or incomplete. With an idea you begin to feel into the nature of that incompleteness.
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An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.
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They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.
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The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.
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