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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTThe Machine is Intellect mastering the drudgery of the earth that the plastic art may live; that the margin of leisure and strength by which man’s life upon earth can be made beautiful, may immeasurably widen; its function ultimately to emancipate human expression!
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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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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You will find Goodness and Truth everywhere you go. If you have to choose, choose Truth. For that is closest to Earth. Keep close to the Earth, in that lies strength. Simplicity of heart is just as necessary for an architect as for a farmer or a minister if the architect is going to build great buildings.
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The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
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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.
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Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
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Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
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I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.
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Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.
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The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
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The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.
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Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.
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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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Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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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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Each material has its own message.
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