Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.
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 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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Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.
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Youth is not an age thing. It’s a quality. Once you’ve had it, you never lose it.
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The truth is more important than the facts.
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They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.
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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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The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.
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An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.
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The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
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There is no true understanding of any art without some knowledge of its philosophy. Only then does its meaning come clear.
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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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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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The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.
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All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
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A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.
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