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!
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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Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.
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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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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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I never design a building before I’ve seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
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Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men.
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If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
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Limitation is always insult–not flattery.
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You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
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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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Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.
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Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.
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The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.
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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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Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.
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