Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
There is no true understanding of any art without some knowledge of its philosophy. Only then does its meaning come clear.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.
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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. 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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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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Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
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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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They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.
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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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Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.
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A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.
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Freedom lies within.
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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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I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.
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The mission of an architect is to help people understand how to make life more beautiful, the world a better one for living in, and to give reason, rhyme, and meaning to life.
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I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.
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