Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.
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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Life is truth.
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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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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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The longer that I live the more beautiful life becomes.
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Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.
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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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Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.
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Less is more only when more is too much.
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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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The room within is the great fact about the building.
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Limitation is always insult–not flattery.
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The measure of its nobility and its continuity is its depth of feeling and its sincerity. And if it has that quality, it stands.
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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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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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The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
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There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
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One war only breeds another.
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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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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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Freedom lies within.
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A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.
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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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An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.
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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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