An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTGood taste is not a substitute for knowledge.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
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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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Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
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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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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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I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.
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A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.
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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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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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Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
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You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
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An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.
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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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An idea is salvation by imagination.
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