There is no true understanding of any art without some knowledge of its philosophy. Only then does its meaning come clear.
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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I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.
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Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge.
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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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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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You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
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An idea is salvation by imagination.
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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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Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm.
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Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
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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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Less is more only when more is too much.
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Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation.
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.
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One war only breeds another.
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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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