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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTArt for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
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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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The measure of a man’s culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.
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Imitate nothing except principle.
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Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge.
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There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
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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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I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.
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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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Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
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The truth is more important than the facts.
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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.
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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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I’ll bridge these hills with graceful arches
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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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