Building becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful, to put concordance, sympathy with nature, and all that into it. Then you have architecture.
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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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
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Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge.
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Limitation is always insult–not flattery.
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Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can’t nail them to a wall.
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Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm.
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The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
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The best thing to do is go as far out as you can get… what you regard as ‘too far’-and when others follow, as they will, move on.
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The best friend of earth of man is the tree.
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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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Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.
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Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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An idea is salvation by imagination.
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Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
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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 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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