Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTHarvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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Freedom lies within.
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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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Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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Nature is my manifestation of God.
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They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.
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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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An idea is inevitably a coordination. It is a coming together of something that is separate or disorganized or incomplete. With an idea you begin to feel into the nature of that incompleteness.
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Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
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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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The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
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Philip Johnson is a highbrow. A highbrow is a man educated beyond his capacity. His house is a box of glass — not shelter. The meaning of the word shelter includes privacy.
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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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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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I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.
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Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men.
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