A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.
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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Nature is my manifestation of God.
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I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.
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I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
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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.
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The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
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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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Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
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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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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
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Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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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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Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can’t nail them to a wall.
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More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.
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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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Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
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