Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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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Limitation is always insult–not flattery.
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Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.
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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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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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You will find Goodness and Truth everywhere you go. If you have to choose, choose Truth. For that is closest to Earth. Keep close to the Earth, in that lies strength. Simplicity of heart is just as necessary for an architect as for a farmer or a minister if the architect is going to build great buildings.
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Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
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Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
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Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
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The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
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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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Nature is my manifestation of God.
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Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.
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Each material has its own message.
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If it sells, it’s art.
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More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.
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