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 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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A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advice his clients to plant vines.
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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 thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
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Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can’t nail them to a wall.
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The measure of its nobility and its continuity is its depth of feeling and its sincerity. And if it has that quality, it stands.
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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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Imitate nothing except principle.
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Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge.
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Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
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I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
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We have no longer an outside and an inside as two separate things. Now the outside may come inside and the inside may and does go outside. They are of each other. Form and function thus become one in design and execution if the nature of materials and method and purpose are all in unison.
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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.
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Life is truth.
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I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.
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Each material has its own message.
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