Less is more only when more is too much.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTTelevision is chewing gum for the eyes.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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The room within is the great fact about the building.
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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.
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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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Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
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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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Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.
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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
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Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.
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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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Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
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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 know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
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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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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.
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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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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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The longer that I live the more beautiful life becomes.
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The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
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Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.
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Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
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Each material has its own message.
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A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.
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I’ll bridge these hills with graceful arches
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Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
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Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
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