I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTNoble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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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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Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
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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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A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advice his clients to plant vines.
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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
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You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
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Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
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The best thing to do is go as far out as you can get… what you regard as ‘too far’-and when others follow, as they will, move on.
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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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The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.
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I’ll bridge these hills with graceful arches
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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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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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Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge.
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One war only breeds another.
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