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The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.

Frank Lloyd Wright

A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Appearance Easy Growth Nature
Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Goodness Knowledge One Liner Taste
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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Defeat Human Ideal Live Planning
Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can’t nail them to a wall.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Death Food Wall
Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
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Lose World
A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Human Inspirational Spirit
The measure of a man’s culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Gratitude Man Ourselves Philosophy
Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Greatness Heart Love Virtue
You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Achievement Inspirational Worth Yourself
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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Beyond Education Man Praise Privacy
Imitate nothing except principle.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

One Liner Principle
The Machine is Intellect mastering the drudgery of the earth that the plastic art may live; that the margin of leisure and strength by which man’s life upon earth can be made beautiful, may immeasurably widen; its function ultimately to emancipate human expression!
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Art Beautiful Expression Human Intellectual Life Live Strength Technology
Building becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful, to put concordance, sympathy with nature, and all that into it. Then you have architecture.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Beautiful Business Man Mindset Nature
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
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Animal Desire Home Regard
The best thing to do is go as far out as you can get… what you regard as ‘too far’-and when others follow, as they will, move on.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Action Best Move On Regard Yourself
All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Human Material Value

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