Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTThe best thing to do is go as far out as you can get… what you regard as ‘too far’-and when others follow, as they will, move on.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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The truth is more important than the facts.
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Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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The primitive ideals of centralization are now largely self-defeating. Human crucifixion by vertically on the now static checkerboard of the old city is pattern already in agony; yet for lack of any organic planning it is going on and on-not living, but rather hanging by its eyebrows from its nervous system.
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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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Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
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Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.
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Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
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The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.
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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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Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
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Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
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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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You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
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A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.
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Limitation is always insult–not flattery.
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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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Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
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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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Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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The longer that I live the more beautiful life becomes.
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Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation.
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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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The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.
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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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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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