If it sells, it’s art.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTWe 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.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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The primitive ideals of centralization are now largely self-defeating. Human crucifixion by vertically on the now static checkerboard of the old city is pattern already in agony; yet for lack of any organic planning it is going on and on-not living, but rather hanging by its eyebrows from its nervous system.
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Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
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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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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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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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Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
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The room within is the great fact about the building.
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An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.
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I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.
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Limitation is always insult–not flattery.
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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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Youth is not an age thing. It’s a quality. Once you’ve had it, you never lose it.
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One war only breeds another.
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Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
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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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