Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTThe belief in a thing makes it happen.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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If it sells, it’s art.
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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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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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Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
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The room within is the great fact about the building.
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Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.
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There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
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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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If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
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Each material has its own message.
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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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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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One war only breeds another.
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Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge.
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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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