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.
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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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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Youth is not an age thing. It’s a quality. Once you’ve had it, you never lose it.
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Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
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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.
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Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation.
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A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.
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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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An idea is salvation by imagination.
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The truth is more important than the facts.
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Each material has its own message.
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Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust.
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The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.
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I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.
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All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
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Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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