The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
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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Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
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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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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.
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A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.
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The truth is more important than the facts.
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The longer that I live the more beautiful life becomes.
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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 thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
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The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.
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The room within is the great fact about the building.
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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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You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.
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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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You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
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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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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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Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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If it sells, it’s art.
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Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
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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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The belief in a thing makes it happen.
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Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
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Imitate nothing except principle.
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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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Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
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