A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advice his clients to plant vines.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTWhy, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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Freedom lies within.
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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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The belief in a thing makes it happen.
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Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.
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Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can’t nail them to a wall.
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You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
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The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you’re an atheist, pretend how God would do it.
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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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If it sells, it’s art.
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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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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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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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More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.
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Nature is my manifestation of God.
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Simplicity and Repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
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The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.
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Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm.
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The best friend of earth of man is the tree.
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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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Early in my career, I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility… I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I’ve never been sorry.
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Each material has its own message.
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Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
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All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
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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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An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.
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