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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTNature is the inspiration for all ornamentation.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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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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There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
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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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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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An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.
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All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
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The measure of its nobility and its continuity is its depth of feeling and its sincerity. And if it has that quality, it stands.
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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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A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.
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Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm.
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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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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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Less is more only when more is too much.
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Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
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