Simplicity and Repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTAn architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advice his clients to plant vines.
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Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
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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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Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
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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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Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
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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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A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn’t afterward.
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Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge.
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An idea is salvation by imagination.
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Nature is my manifestation of God.
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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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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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