Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTAll fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.
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I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.
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Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can’t nail them to a wall.
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I’ll bridge these hills with graceful arches
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Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
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Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust.
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Philip Johnson is a highbrow. A highbrow is a man educated beyond his capacity. His house is a box of glass — not shelter. The meaning of the word shelter includes privacy.
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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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There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
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Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
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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 never design a building before I’ve seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
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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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More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.
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