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 WRIGHTGive me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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I don’t know whether you are a saint or a fool said my lawyer. I replied Is there a difference?
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The best friend of earth of man is the tree.
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Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men.
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The room within is the great fact about the building.
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An idea is salvation by imagination.
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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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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.
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The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
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A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advice his clients to plant vines.
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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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If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
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Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
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There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
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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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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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