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 WRIGHTThe measure of a man’s culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.
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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Youth is not an age thing. It’s a quality. Once you’ve had it, you never lose it.
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I’ll bridge these hills with graceful arches
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The truth is more important than the facts.
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There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
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The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
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The mission of an architect is to help people understand how to make life more beautiful, the world a better one for living in, and to give reason, rhyme, and meaning to life.
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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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Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
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Life is truth.
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The longer that I live the more beautiful life becomes.
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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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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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They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.
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If it sells, it’s art.
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