Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
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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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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Each material has its own message.
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Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.
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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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The mission of an architect is to help people understand how to make life more beautiful, the world a better one for living in, and to give reason, rhyme, and meaning to life.
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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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There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
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Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.
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Imitate nothing except principle.
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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 measure of its nobility and its continuity is its depth of feeling and its sincerity. And if it has that quality, it stands.
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More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.
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Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men.
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No 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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