Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTStudy nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
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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You will find Goodness and Truth everywhere you go. If you have to choose, choose Truth. For that is closest to Earth. Keep close to the Earth, in that lies strength. Simplicity of heart is just as necessary for an architect as for a farmer or a minister if the architect is going to build great buildings.
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The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
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Early in my career, I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility… I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I’ve never been sorry.
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An idea is inevitably a coordination. It is a coming together of something that is separate or disorganized or incomplete. With an idea you begin to feel into the nature of that incompleteness.
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If it sells, it’s art.
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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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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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I never design a building before I’ve seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
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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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I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.
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The longer that I live the more beautiful life becomes.
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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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Nature is my manifestation of God.
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The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
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