Youth is not an age thing. It’s a quality. Once you’ve had it, you never lose it.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTAs 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.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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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.
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Simplicity and Repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
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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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Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
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Life is truth.
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Early in my career, I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility… I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I’ve never been sorry.
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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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Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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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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We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.
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I’ll bridge these hills with graceful arches
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Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
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Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm.
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The Machine is Intellect mastering the drudgery of the earth that the plastic art may live; that the margin of leisure and strength by which man’s life upon earth can be made beautiful, may immeasurably widen; its function ultimately to emancipate human expression!
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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
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