A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTThey turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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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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Less is more only when more is too much.
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As we work along our various ways, there takes shape within us, in some sort, an ideal – something we are to become – some work to be done. This, I think, is denied to very few, and we begin really to live only when the thrill of this ideality moves us in what we will to accomplish.
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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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Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.
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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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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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Give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.
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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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There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
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More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.
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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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Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm.
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Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.
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The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.
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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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You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.
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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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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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There is no true understanding of any art without some knowledge of its philosophy. Only then does its meaning come clear.
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Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation.
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Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
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All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
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Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
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Nature is my manifestation of God.
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