More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTThe longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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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 room within is the great fact about the building.
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A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advice his clients to plant vines.
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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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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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The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.
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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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Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.
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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 mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
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We have no longer an outside and an inside as two separate things. Now the outside may come inside and the inside may and does go outside. They are of each other. Form and function thus become one in design and execution if the nature of materials and method and purpose are all in unison.
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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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The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
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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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Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
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