Now a work of art is a work of nature, but it is a work of human nature. It is a work of the mind: and it’s a work of the mind in circumstances for an occasion which, to which, for which, and which it may be supremely natural and simple and effective.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTTip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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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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I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
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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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The belief in a thing makes it happen.
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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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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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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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They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.
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Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm.
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All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
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Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
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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 a man’s culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.
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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
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