Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
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.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
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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 its nobility and its continuity is its depth of feeling and its sincerity. And if it has that quality, it stands.
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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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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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The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.
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Less is more only when more is too much.
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Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.
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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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An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.
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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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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 the only body of God that we shall ever see.
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Limitation is always insult–not flattery.
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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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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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