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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An idea is salvation by imagination.
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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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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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Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.
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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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Less is more only when more is too much.
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I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
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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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The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
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Imitate nothing except principle.
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Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.
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There is no true understanding of any art without some knowledge of its philosophy. Only then does its meaning come clear.
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All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
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The best friend of earth of man is the tree.
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They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.
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