I never design a building before I’ve seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
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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I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.
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Less is more only when more is too much.
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Building becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful, to put concordance, sympathy with nature, and all that into it. Then you have architecture.
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Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.
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The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
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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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Limitation is always insult–not flattery.
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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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Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge.
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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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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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Simplicity and Repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
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Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation.
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More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.
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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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Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
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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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A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.
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If it sells, it’s art.
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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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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
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Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm.
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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 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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The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
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