The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTMan 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.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
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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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Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge.
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If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
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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 thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
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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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Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.
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Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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I never design a building before I’ve seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
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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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More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.
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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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Nature is my manifestation of God.
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