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.
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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One war only breeds another.
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Space is the breath of art.
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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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I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.
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I’ll bridge these hills with graceful arches
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Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
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The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.
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Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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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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Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.
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Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation.
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.
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Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
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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 know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
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