Give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.
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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Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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One war only breeds another.
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All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
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Each material has its own message.
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Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
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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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Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.
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Space is the breath of art.
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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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The belief in a thing makes it happen.
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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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Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
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The mission of an architect is to help people understand how to make life more beautiful, the world a better one for living in, and to give reason, rhyme, and meaning to life.
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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.
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Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge.
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