Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTYou can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge.
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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.
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More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.
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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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Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.
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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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The truth is more important than the facts.
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The best thing to do is go as far out as you can get… what you regard as ‘too far’-and when others follow, as they will, move on.
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One war only breeds another.
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The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.
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There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
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A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.
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Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.
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I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.
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Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust.
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