I don’t know whether you are a saint or a fool said my lawyer. I replied Is there a difference?
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTThe 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.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge.
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Each material has its own message.
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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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Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men.
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Freedom lies within.
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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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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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Give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.
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I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.
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Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
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Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
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The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
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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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You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.
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An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.
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