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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTI don’t know whether you are a saint or a fool said my lawyer. I replied Is there a difference?
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you’re an atheist, pretend how God would do it.
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The mission of an architect is to help people understand how to make life more beautiful, the world a better one for living in, and to give reason, rhyme, and meaning to life.
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I never design a building before I’ve seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
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Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.
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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’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.
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Imitate nothing except principle.
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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 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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A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.
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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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Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
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Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
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An idea is inevitably a coordination. It is a coming together of something that is separate or disorganized or incomplete. With an idea you begin to feel into the nature of that incompleteness.
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