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 WRIGHTThe only thing wrong with architecture is architects.
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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Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
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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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The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
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Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
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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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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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Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm.
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I don’t know whether you are a saint or a fool said my lawyer. I replied Is there a difference?
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Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.
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Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.
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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.
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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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I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.
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