I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.
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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Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
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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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Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
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All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
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One war only breeds another.
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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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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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Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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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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The mission of an architect is to help people understand how to make life more beautiful, the world a better one for living in, and to give reason, rhyme, and meaning to life.
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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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Limitation is always insult–not flattery.
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The belief in a thing makes it 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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