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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTAn architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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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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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
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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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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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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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Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
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An idea is salvation by imagination.
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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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I’ll bridge these hills with graceful arches
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Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
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Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation.
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Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
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They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.
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The belief in a thing makes it happen.
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The 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.
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