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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The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
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If it sells, it’s art.
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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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An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.
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The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.
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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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Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
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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.
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A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn’t afterward.
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Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust.
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Imitate nothing except principle.
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.
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You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
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The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.
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