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The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.

Frank Lloyd Wright

An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Funny Man Philosophy Savage Thinking
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Believe Hope Inspirational Philosophy Yourself
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
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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Difference Fools Myself See
An idea is salvation by imagination.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Ideas Imagination
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
I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Greatness Myself Nature Religious
The mission of an architect is to help people understand how to make life more beautiful, the world a better one for living in, and to give reason, rhyme, and meaning to life.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Beautiful Help Life Live People Reason Understand World
Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Grow Up Old Youth
Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Goodness Knowledge One Liner Taste
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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Happiness Home Live Nature Togetherness
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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Career Choice Honesty Myself Regret
The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
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Heart Inspirational Mindset Success
Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
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Material People Rich
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Believe God Myself Nature
You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Tool Yourself
Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Inspirational Nature
The belief in a thing makes it happen.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Belief Inspirational
A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advice his clients to plant vines.
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Advice Mistake Plant
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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Goodness Lie Simplicity Strength Truth Yourself
The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you’re an atheist, pretend how God would do it.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Atheist Creation God Thinking
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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Death Food Wall
Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Greatness Liberty Tolerance
We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Creation Friendship Ourselves Philosophy
Now a work of art is a work of nature, but it is a work of human nature. It is a work of the mind: and it’s a work of the mind in circumstances for an occasion which, to which, for which, and which it may be supremely natural and simple and effective.
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Art Human Mindset Nature Simplicity
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
Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Beautiful Greatness Myself Thinking World

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