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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTAn idea is inevitably a coordination. It is a coming together of something that is separate or disorganized or incomplete. With an idea you begin to feel into the nature of that incompleteness.
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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Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.
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Less is more only when more is too much.
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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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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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A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.
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You will find Goodness and Truth everywhere you go. If you have to choose, choose Truth. For that is closest to Earth. Keep close to the Earth, in that lies strength. Simplicity of heart is just as necessary for an architect as for a farmer or a minister if the architect is going to build great buildings.
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If it sells, it’s art.
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Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men.
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An idea is salvation by imagination.
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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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An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.
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Each material has its own message.
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Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
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