Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTThe 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.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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Now a work of art is a work of nature, but it is a work of human nature. It is a work of the mind: and it’s a work of the mind in circumstances for an occasion which, to which, for which, and which it may be supremely natural and simple and effective.
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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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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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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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A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.
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Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
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The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
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I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.
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More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.
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Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
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I’ll bridge these hills with graceful arches
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The room within is the great fact about the building.
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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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As we work along our various ways, there takes shape within us, in some sort, an ideal – something we are to become – some work to be done. This, I think, is denied to very few, and we begin really to live only when the thrill of this ideality moves us in what we will to accomplish.
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Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
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