Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTLess is more only when more is too much.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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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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Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm.
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The measure of its nobility and its continuity is its depth of feeling and its sincerity. And if it has that quality, it stands.
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Simplicity and Repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
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Youth is not an age thing. It’s a quality. Once you’ve had it, you never lose it.
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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.
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I’ll bridge these hills with graceful arches
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Each material has its own message.
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Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
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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 believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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Life is truth.
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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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Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.
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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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Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
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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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Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.
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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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All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
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The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.
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Space is the breath of art.
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Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.
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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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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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If it sells, it’s art.
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