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!
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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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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Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
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All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
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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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They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.
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Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge.
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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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Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation.
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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men.
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Nature is my manifestation of God.
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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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An idea is salvation by imagination.
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Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
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