There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
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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If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
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You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.
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Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men.
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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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We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.
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Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
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Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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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.
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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
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Freedom lies within.
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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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Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge.
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The room within is the great fact about the building.
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Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.
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