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The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.

Frank Lloyd Wright

There is no true understanding of any art without some knowledge of its philosophy. Only then does its meaning come clear.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Art Knowledge Philosophy True Understand
I never design a building before I’ve seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
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Design Myself People
Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.
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Government Result
Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation.
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Inspirational Nature
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
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Art Civilization Mom Soul
Limitation is always insult–not flattery.
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Limitation Praise
You will find Goodness and Truth everywhere you go. If you have to choose, choose Truth. For that is closest to Earth. Keep close to the Earth, in that lies strength. Simplicity of heart is just as necessary for an architect as for a farmer or a minister if the architect is going to build great buildings.
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Goodness Lie Simplicity Strength Truth Yourself
Imitate nothing except principle.
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One Liner Principle
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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Design Each Other Material Nature Oneself Philosophy Purpose
Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
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Greatness Liberty Tolerance
Each material has its own message.
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Material One Liner Worth
Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.
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Beautiful Human Man Material Worth
The belief in a thing makes it happen.
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Belief Inspirational
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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Appearance Easy Growth Nature
An idea is salvation by imagination.
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Ideas Imagination
Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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Civilization Fall

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