The measure of a man’s culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTYouth is not an age thing. It’s a quality. Once you’ve had it, you never lose it.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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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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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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A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.
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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 best thing to do is go as far out as you can get… what you regard as ‘too far’-and when others follow, as they will, move on.
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Building becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful, to put concordance, sympathy with nature, and all that into it. Then you have architecture.
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An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.
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There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
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Space is the breath of art.
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Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
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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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Now a work of art is a work of nature, but it is a work of human nature. It is a work of the mind: and it’s a work of the mind in circumstances for an occasion which, to which, for which, and which it may be supremely natural and simple and effective.
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I don’t know whether you are a saint or a fool said my lawyer. I replied Is there a difference?
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I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.
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Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm.
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