I never design a building before I’ve seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
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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The room within is the great fact about the building.
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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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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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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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A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.
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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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Imitate nothing except principle.
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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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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.
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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 belief in a thing makes it happen.
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Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
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Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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Simplicity and Repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
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Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge.
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