The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTA doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advice his clients to plant vines.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
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An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.
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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 only thing wrong with architecture is architects.
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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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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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Imitate nothing except principle.
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Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.
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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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An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.
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Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm.
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I never design a building before I’ve seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
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Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
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