I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTI never design a building before I’ve seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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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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Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
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Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
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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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An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.
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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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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
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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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Life is truth.
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You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.
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A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advice his clients to plant vines.
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Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
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Limitation is always insult–not flattery.
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A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.
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Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.
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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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Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.
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I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.
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Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.
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Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
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Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
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I’ll bridge these hills with graceful arches
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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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