I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.
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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Simplicity and Repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
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Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.
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Nature is my manifestation of God.
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Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.
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Limitation is always insult–not flattery.
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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 measure of its nobility and its continuity is its depth of feeling and its sincerity. And if it has that quality, it stands.
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Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
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The room within is the great fact about the building.
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As we work along our various ways, there takes shape within us, in some sort, an ideal – something we are to become – some work to be done. This, I think, is denied to very few, and we begin really to live only when the thrill of this ideality moves us in what we will to accomplish.
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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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An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.
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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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The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.
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A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.
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Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.
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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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If it sells, it’s art.
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Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
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Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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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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You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
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We 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.
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Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
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Less is more only when more is too much.
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