The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTI never design a building before I’ve seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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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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Each material has its own message.
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The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
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A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.
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Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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The primitive ideals of centralization are now largely self-defeating. Human crucifixion by vertically on the now static checkerboard of the old city is pattern already in agony; yet for lack of any organic planning it is going on and on-not living, but rather hanging by its eyebrows from its nervous system.
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
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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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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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More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.
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Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation.
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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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They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.
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An idea is salvation by imagination.
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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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