The best friend of earth of man is the tree.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTYou 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.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.
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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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Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.
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I don’t know whether you are a saint or a fool said my lawyer. I replied Is there a difference?
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Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.
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Each material has its own message.
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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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Life is truth.
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All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
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Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
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Nature is my manifestation of God.
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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 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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Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men.
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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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