You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTA building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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Each material has its own message.
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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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A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.
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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’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.
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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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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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A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advice his clients to plant vines.
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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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The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
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Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.
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The longer that I live the more beautiful life becomes.
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