Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
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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Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men.
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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.
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No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.
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Each material has its own message.
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
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Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
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I’ll bridge these hills with graceful arches
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Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
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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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As we work along our various ways, there takes shape within us, in some sort, an ideal – something we are to become – some work to be done. This, I think, is denied to very few, and we begin really to live only when the thrill of this ideality moves us in what we will to accomplish.
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The longer that I live the more beautiful life becomes.
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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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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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The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you’re an atheist, pretend how God would do it.
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All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
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