Give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTRegard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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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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The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
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I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.
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Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
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Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men.
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The room within is the great fact about the building.
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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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The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
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An 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.
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Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation.
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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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Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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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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A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.
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Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge.
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