Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
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.
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Now a work of art is a work of nature, but it is a work of human nature. It is a work of the mind: and it’s a work of the mind in circumstances for an occasion which, to which, for which, and which it may be supremely natural and simple and effective.
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Space is the breath of art.
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The primitive ideals of centralization are now largely self-defeating. Human crucifixion by vertically on the now static checkerboard of the old city is pattern already in agony; yet for lack of any organic planning it is going on and on-not living, but rather hanging by its eyebrows from its nervous system.
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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 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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Life is truth.
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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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The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
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The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.
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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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If it sells, it’s art.
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I never design a building before I’ve seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
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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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Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
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Early in my career, I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility… I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I’ve never been sorry.
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