An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTBureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can’t nail them to a wall.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
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Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
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You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.
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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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A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn’t afterward.
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The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.
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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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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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Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
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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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A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.
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Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.
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Imitate nothing except principle.
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The measure of a man’s culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.
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