The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you’re an atheist, pretend how God would do it.
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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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 room within is the great fact about the building.
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Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
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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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I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.
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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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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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Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.
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The best friend of earth of man is the tree.
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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 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 longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
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The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
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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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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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