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An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Civilization Fall
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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Career Choice Honesty Myself Regret
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Believe Hope Inspirational Philosophy Yourself
Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Body God Nature See
A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Appearance Easy Growth Nature
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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Design Each Other Material Nature Oneself Philosophy Purpose
Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Children Myself
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Life Man Philosophy
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!
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Art Beautiful Expression Human Intellectual Life Live Strength Technology
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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Best Friendship Man Material Respect Tree
The best friend of earth of man is the tree.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Friendship Man Tree
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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Beginning Feeling Idea Ideas Nature Togetherness
Nature is my manifestation of God.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

God Nature Religious Spiritual
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Beautiful Life Live Myself Philosophy
Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Material People Rich
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Animal Desire Home Regard

An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.

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