If it sells, it’s art.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTMan 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.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.
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I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.
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An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.
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Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation.
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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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We 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.
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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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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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I don’t know whether you are a saint or a fool said my lawyer. I replied Is there a difference?
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Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.
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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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Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
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Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can’t nail them to a wall.
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The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
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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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The truth is more important than the facts.
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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.
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Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.
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There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
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Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
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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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All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
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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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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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