We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.
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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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 heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
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I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.
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The belief in a thing makes it happen.
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Nature is my manifestation of God.
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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 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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Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
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Imitate nothing except principle.
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Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation.
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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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A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.
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I don’t know whether you are a saint or a fool said my lawyer. I replied Is there a difference?
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Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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