We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.
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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The room within is the great fact about the building.
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Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm.
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The belief in a thing makes it happen.
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Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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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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Nature is my manifestation of God.
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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.
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Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men.
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Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
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Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
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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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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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Give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.
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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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An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.
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