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A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advice his clients to plant vines.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Material People Rich
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Believe God Myself Nature
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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Defeat Human Ideal Live Planning
Each material has its own message.
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Material One Liner Worth
Space is the breath of art.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Art Breathe Space
Limitation is always insult–not flattery.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Limitation Praise
A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Human Inspirational Spirit
More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.
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Beautiful Light Myself
The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.
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Greatness Human Limitation
Nature is my manifestation of God.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

God Nature Religious Spiritual
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Art Civilization Mom Soul
A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.
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Appearance Easy Growth Nature
Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Art Food Philosophy
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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Goodness Lie Simplicity Strength Truth Yourself
Give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Happiness Life Luxury Necessary Need
The measure of a man’s culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Gratitude Man Ourselves Philosophy

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