Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTAn expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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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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Each material has its own message.
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Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
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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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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.
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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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Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men.
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More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.
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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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A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advice his clients to plant vines.
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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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There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
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Less is more only when more is too much.
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Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.
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Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
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Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
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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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I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.
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Philip Johnson is a highbrow. A highbrow is a man educated beyond his capacity. His house is a box of glass — not shelter. The meaning of the word shelter includes privacy.
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I don’t know whether you are a saint or a fool said my lawyer. I replied Is there a difference?
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The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
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Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.
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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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Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge.
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