The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTArt for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.
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The truth is more important than the facts.
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Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge.
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Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
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Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.
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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.
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The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
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I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
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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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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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An idea is inevitably a coordination. It is a coming together of something that is separate or disorganized or incomplete. With an idea you begin to feel into the nature of that incompleteness.
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Man 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.
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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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Each material has its own message.
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Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm.
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Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
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Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men.
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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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Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
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I’ll bridge these hills with graceful arches
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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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Youth is not an age thing. It’s a quality. Once you’ve had it, you never lose it.
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Limitation is always insult–not flattery.
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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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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
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