We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTEach material has its own message.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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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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Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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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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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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There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
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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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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 human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.
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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!
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.
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If it sells, it’s art.
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They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.
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Limitation is always insult–not flattery.
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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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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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Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
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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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The belief in a thing makes it happen.
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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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You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.
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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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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
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The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
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Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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