Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTThere is no true understanding of any art without some knowledge of its philosophy. Only then does its meaning come clear.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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The mission of an architect is to help people understand how to make life more beautiful, the world a better one for living in, and to give reason, rhyme, and meaning to life.
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Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men.
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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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Freedom lies within.
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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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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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Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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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 never design a building before I’ve seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
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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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Philip Johnson is a highbrow. A highbrow is a man educated beyond his capacity. His house is a box of glass — not shelter. The meaning of the word shelter includes privacy.
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Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.
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We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.
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Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
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Imitate nothing except principle.
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