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 WRIGHTNow 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.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge.
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Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.
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The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.
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Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
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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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If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
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Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
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The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
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Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
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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!
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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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Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.
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Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
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