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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.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Happiness Home Live Nature Togetherness
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
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Art Civilization Mom Soul
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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Appearance Easy Growth Nature
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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Design Each Other Material Nature Oneself Philosophy Purpose
They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.
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Country Fall
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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Atheist Creation God Thinking
Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.
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Body God Nature See
Simplicity and Repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
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Art Quality Simplicity True Value
More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.
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Beautiful Light Myself
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

People Philosophy
I never design a building before I’ve seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
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Design Myself People
An idea is salvation by imagination.
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Ideas Imagination
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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Change Choice Honesty Life Myself
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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Creation Friendship Ourselves Philosophy
The primitive ideals of centralization are now largely self-defeating. Human crucifixion by vertically on the now static checkerboard of the old city is pattern already in agony; yet for lack of any organic planning it is going on and on-not living, but rather hanging by its eyebrows from its nervous system.
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Defeat Human Ideal Live Planning
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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Career Choice Honesty Myself Regret

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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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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