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!
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTIf you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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I’ll bridge these hills with graceful arches
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Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation.
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Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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Nature is my manifestation of God.
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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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The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
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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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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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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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Each material has its own message.
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.
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Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
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Youth is not an age thing. It’s a quality. Once you’ve had it, you never lose it.
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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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We have no longer an outside and an inside as two separate things. Now the outside may come inside and the inside may and does go outside. They are of each other. Form and function thus become one in design and execution if the nature of materials and method and purpose are all in unison.
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