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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.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Children Myself
Building becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful, to put concordance, sympathy with nature, and all that into it. Then you have architecture.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Beautiful Business Man Mindset Nature
Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Civilization Fall
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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Art Human Mindset Nature Simplicity
An idea is salvation by imagination.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Ideas Imagination
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 WRIGHT

Art Beautiful Expression Human Intellectual Life Live Strength Technology
The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Design Wrong
You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Achievement Inspirational Worth Yourself
The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Beautiful Goodness Hurt
A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advice his clients to plant vines.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Advice Mistake Plant
The measure of a man’s culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Gratitude Man Ourselves Philosophy
I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Choice Honesty Myself
Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Inspirational Nature
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Life Luxury Necessary Willing
Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Lose World
All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Human Material Value

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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