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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTYou have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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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 don’t know whether you are a saint or a fool said my lawyer. I replied Is there a difference?
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Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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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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You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.
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All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
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I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.
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Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
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The measure of its nobility and its continuity is its depth of feeling and its sincerity. And if it has that quality, it stands.
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A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advice his clients to plant vines.
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You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
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A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.
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The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
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The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you’re an atheist, pretend how God would do it.
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One war only breeds another.
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