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The measure of its nobility and its continuity is its depth of feeling and its sincerity. And if it has that quality, it stands.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Limitation is always insult–not flattery.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Limitation Praise
I never design a building before I’ve seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Design Myself People
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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Accomplishment Beginning Ideal Myself Ourselves Thinking
Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Lose World
Nature is my manifestation of God.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

God Nature Religious Spiritual
Early in my career, I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility… I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I’ve never been sorry.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Career Choice Honesty Myself Regret
I don’t know whether you are a saint or a fool said my lawyer. I replied Is there a difference?
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Difference Fools Myself See
A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Feeling Himself Oneself
Youth is not an age thing. It’s a quality. Once you’ve had it, you never lose it.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Age Lose Perspective Quality Youth
Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Civilization Fall
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 WRIGHT

Art Beautiful Expression Human Intellectual Life Live Strength Technology
Freedom lies within.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Freedom Lie One Liner
If it sells, it’s art.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Art One Liner
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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Defeat Human Ideal Live Planning
Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Material Nature
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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Beautiful Goodness Hurt

The measure of its nobility and its continuity is its depth of feeling and its sincerity. And if it has that quality, it stands.

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