Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.
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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Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
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Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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The belief in a thing makes it happen.
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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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Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
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The room within is the great fact about the building.
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The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.
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Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.
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A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.
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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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Imitate nothing except principle.
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Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation.
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Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
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Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.
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