No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.
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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Youth is not an age thing. It’s a quality. Once you’ve had it, you never lose it.
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A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.
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Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
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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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There is no true understanding of any art without some knowledge of its philosophy. Only then does its meaning come clear.
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If it sells, it’s art.
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Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
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Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
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The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.
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The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.
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Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.
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The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
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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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The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you’re an atheist, pretend how God would do it.
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You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.
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