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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

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
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Believe Hope Inspirational Philosophy Yourself
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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Career Choice Honesty Myself Regret
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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Education Perfection Student
You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.
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Tool Yourself
A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advice his clients to plant vines.
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Advice Mistake Plant
An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.
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Business Tool
Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation.
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Inspirational Nature
Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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Art Food Philosophy
Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
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Children Earth Nature Sun
You will find Goodness and Truth everywhere you go. If you have to choose, choose Truth. For that is closest to Earth. Keep close to the Earth, in that lies strength. Simplicity of heart is just as necessary for an architect as for a farmer or a minister if the architect is going to build great buildings.
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Goodness Lie Simplicity Strength Truth Yourself
If it sells, it’s art.
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Art One Liner
Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.
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Material Nature
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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Beautiful Goodness Hurt
There is no true understanding of any art without some knowledge of its philosophy. Only then does its meaning come clear.
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Art Knowledge Philosophy True Understand
Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
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Lose World
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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Action Best Move On Regard Yourself
The best friend of earth of man is the tree.
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Friendship Man Tree
Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
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Body God Nature See
Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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Civilization Fall
Life is truth.
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Life One Liner Truth
One war only breeds another.
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One Liner Oneself War
Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.
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Body God Nature See
Give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.
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Happiness Life Luxury Necessary Need
The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
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Beautiful Ignorance Life Live Myself Perspective Philosophy Yourself
If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
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Beautiful Investment Life Yourself
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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Gratitude Man Ourselves Philosophy
Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.
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Government Result

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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