The measure of a man’s culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.
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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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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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 Machine is Intellect mastering the drudgery of the earth that the plastic art may live; that the margin of leisure and strength by which man’s life upon earth can be made beautiful, may immeasurably widen; its function ultimately to emancipate human expression!
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There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
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Life is truth.
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There is no true understanding of any art without some knowledge of its philosophy. Only then does its meaning come clear.
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A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.
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A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn’t afterward.
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An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.
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Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge.
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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 you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
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More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of 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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An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.
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