Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTBuilding 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.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation.
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Space is the breath of art.
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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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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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One war only breeds another.
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Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
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You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
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Limitation is always insult–not flattery.
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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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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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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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Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
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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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Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
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Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm.
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