The measure of a man’s culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTBuilding becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful, to put concordance, sympathy with nature, and all that into it. Then you have architecture.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
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You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
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If it sells, it’s art.
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There is no true understanding of any art without some knowledge of its philosophy. Only then does its meaning come clear.
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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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The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.
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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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Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
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The longer that I live the more beautiful life becomes.
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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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A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.
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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
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Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.
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Building becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful, to put concordance, sympathy with nature, and all that into it. Then you have architecture.
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