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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTFreedom lies within.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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Philip Johnson is a highbrow. A highbrow is a man educated beyond his capacity. His house is a box of glass — not shelter. The meaning of the word shelter includes privacy.
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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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Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.
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Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
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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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Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation.
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An idea is salvation by imagination.
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The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
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Less is more only when more is too much.
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Life is truth.
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Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
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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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I never design a building before I’ve seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
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Space is the breath of art.
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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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Give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.
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Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
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The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
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I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.
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Freedom lies within.
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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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I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.
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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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Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
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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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