The best friend of earth of man is the tree.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTA box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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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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An idea is salvation by imagination.
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You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
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Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm.
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I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.
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One war only breeds another.
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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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Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
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An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.
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A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn’t afterward.
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Youth is not an age thing. It’s a quality. Once you’ve had it, you never lose it.
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I’ll bridge these hills with graceful arches
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Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
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A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.
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Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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The measure of a man’s culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.
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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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Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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Now a work of art is a work of nature, but it is a work of human nature. It is a work of the mind: and it’s a work of the mind in circumstances for an occasion which, to which, for which, and which it may be supremely natural and simple and effective.
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The belief in a thing makes it happen.
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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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Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge.
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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
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There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
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If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
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