The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTArt for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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Freedom lies within.
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I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.
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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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Less is more only when more is too much.
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Youth is not an age thing. It’s a quality. Once you’ve had it, you never lose it.
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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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You will find Goodness and Truth everywhere you go. If you have to choose, choose Truth. For that is closest to Earth. Keep close to the Earth, in that lies strength. Simplicity of heart is just as necessary for an architect as for a farmer or a minister if the architect is going to build great buildings.
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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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A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.
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Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge.
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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.
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An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.
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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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If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
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