Give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTI know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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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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Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.
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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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Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men.
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Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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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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Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
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Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
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The longer that I live the more beautiful life becomes.
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Life is truth.
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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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Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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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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I never design a building before I’ve seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
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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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