The best friend of earth of man is the tree.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTSimplicity and Repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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An idea is salvation by imagination.
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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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Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.
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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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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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The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
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The primitive ideals of centralization are now largely self-defeating. Human crucifixion by vertically on the now static checkerboard of the old city is pattern already in agony; yet for lack of any organic planning it is going on and on-not living, but rather hanging by its eyebrows from its nervous system.
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More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.
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Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
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A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.
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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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Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
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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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Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
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