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There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Beautiful Ignorance Life Live Myself Perspective Philosophy Yourself
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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Beginning Feeling Idea Ideas Nature Togetherness
We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Creation Friendship Ourselves Philosophy
The belief in a thing makes it happen.
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Belief Inspirational
Youth is not an age thing. It’s a quality. Once you’ve had it, you never lose it.
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Age Lose Perspective Quality Youth
A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advice his clients to plant vines.
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Advice Mistake Plant
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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Defeat Human Ideal Live Planning
Limitation is always insult–not flattery.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Limitation Praise
Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Body God Nature See
An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.
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Business Tool
We have no longer an outside and an inside as two separate things. Now the outside may come inside and the inside may and does go outside. They are of each other. Form and function thus become one in design and execution if the nature of materials and method and purpose are all in unison.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Design Each Other Material Nature Oneself Philosophy Purpose
Simplicity and Repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Art Quality Simplicity True Value
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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Death Food Wall
The truth is more important than the facts.
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Important Truth
Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.
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Material Nature
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
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Animal Desire Home Regard

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