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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTBring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
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They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.
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Life is truth.
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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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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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Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
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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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A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.
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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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You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
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Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.
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Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
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I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.
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A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.
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Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm.
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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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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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Early in my career, I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility… I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I’ve never been sorry.
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Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
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Space is the breath of art.
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Limitation is always insult–not flattery.
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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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Imitate nothing except principle.
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Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.
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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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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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