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.
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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The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.
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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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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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Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.
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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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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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The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
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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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Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
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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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Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.
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Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
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The best friend of earth of man is the tree.
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I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.
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