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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTEarly 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.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn’t afterward.
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I don’t know whether you are a saint or a fool said my lawyer. I replied Is there a difference?
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Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.
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I’ll bridge these hills with graceful arches
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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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The room within is the great fact about the building.
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An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.
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The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.
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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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Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge.
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I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.
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Freedom lies within.
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A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advice his clients to plant vines.
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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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I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.
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