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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTMore and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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Freedom lies within.
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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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Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge.
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Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men.
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I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.
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An idea is salvation by imagination.
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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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I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.
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Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust.
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The measure of a man’s culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.
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Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.
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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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We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.
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The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
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Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
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