The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTMany wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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The mission of an architect is to help people understand how to make life more beautiful, the world a better one for living in, and to give reason, rhyme, and meaning to life.
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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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Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
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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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Now a work of art is a work of nature, but it is a work of human nature. It is a work of the mind: and it’s a work of the mind in circumstances for an occasion which, to which, for which, and which it may be supremely natural and simple and effective.
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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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Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm.
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Youth is not an age thing. It’s a quality. Once you’ve had it, you never lose 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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I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
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Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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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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If it sells, it’s art.
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