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.
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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I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.
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More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.
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Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.
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Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
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Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
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The room within is the great fact about the building.
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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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We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.
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Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men.
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One war only breeds another.
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Now a work of art is a work of nature, but it is a work of human nature. It is a work of the mind: and it’s a work of the mind in circumstances for an occasion which, to which, for which, and which it may be supremely natural and simple and effective.
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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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They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.
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Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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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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The measure of a man’s culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.
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The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.
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Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.
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There is no true understanding of any art without some knowledge of its philosophy. Only then does its meaning come clear.
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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 my manifestation of God.
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Early in my career, I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility… I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I’ve never been sorry.
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The longer that I live the more beautiful life becomes.
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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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An idea is inevitably a coordination. It is a coming together of something that is separate or disorganized or incomplete. With an idea you begin to feel into the nature of that incompleteness.
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