No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTWe have no longer an outside and an inside as two separate things. Now the outside may come inside and the inside may and does go outside. They are of each other. Form and function thus become one in design and execution if the nature of materials and method and purpose are all in unison.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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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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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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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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Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
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I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.
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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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All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
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Less is more only when more is too much.
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Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
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Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.
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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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Give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.
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Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.
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The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.
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