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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTNo house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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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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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
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Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation.
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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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One war only breeds another.
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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
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Limitation is always insult–not flattery.
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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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A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advice his clients to plant vines.
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I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.
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Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.
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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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There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
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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.
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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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