I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTThe mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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Imitate nothing except principle.
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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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The primitive ideals of centralization are now largely self-defeating. Human crucifixion by vertically on the now static checkerboard of the old city is pattern already in agony; yet for lack of any organic planning it is going on and on-not living, but rather hanging by its eyebrows from its nervous system.
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Each material has its own message.
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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.
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Nature is my manifestation of God.
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The measure of a man’s culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.
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Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
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The room within is the great fact about the building.
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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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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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