I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTNature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.
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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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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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Youth is not an age thing. It’s a quality. Once you’ve had it, you never lose it.
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Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.
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I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.
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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
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You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.
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Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
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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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A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.
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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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If it sells, it’s art.
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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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Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
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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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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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Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.
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Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.
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Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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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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All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
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Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.
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Each material has its own message.
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The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
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Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
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