I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTThere is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
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Imitate nothing except principle.
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Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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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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Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
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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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Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.
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Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
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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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The longer that I live the more beautiful life becomes.
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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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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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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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As we work along our various ways, there takes shape within us, in some sort, an ideal – something we are to become – some work to be done. This, I think, is denied to very few, and we begin really to live only when the thrill of this ideality moves us in what we will to accomplish.
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Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.
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