The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTGive me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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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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The longer that I live the more beautiful life becomes.
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Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
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Imitate nothing except principle.
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Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.
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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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A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.
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A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn’t afterward.
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Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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Philip Johnson is a highbrow. A highbrow is a man educated beyond his capacity. His house is a box of glass — not shelter. The meaning of the word shelter includes privacy.
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They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.
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Space is the breath of art.
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Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust.
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Now a work of art is a work of nature, but it is a work of human nature. It is a work of the mind: and it’s a work of the mind in circumstances for an occasion which, to which, for which, and which it may be supremely natural and simple and effective.
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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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