An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTEarly in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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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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The 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!
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Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
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Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm.
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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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A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.
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Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
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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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Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge.
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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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They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.
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Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
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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.
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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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