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.
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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Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
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You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.
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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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Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.
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Philip Johnson is a highbrow. A highbrow is a man educated beyond his capacity. His house is a box of glass — not shelter. The meaning of the word shelter includes privacy.
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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 salvation by imagination.
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A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.
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The measure of a man’s culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.
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Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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The longer that I live the more beautiful life becomes.
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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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The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
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Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.
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