Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTThe 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.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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Less is more only when more is too much.
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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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Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust.
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Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
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I never design a building before I’ve seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
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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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We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.
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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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The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.
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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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The room within is the great fact about the building.
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An idea is inevitably a coordination. It is a coming together of something that is separate or disorganized or incomplete. With an idea you begin to feel into the nature of that incompleteness.
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The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
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Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.
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