The measure of a man’s culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTLack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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I don’t know whether you are a saint or a fool said my lawyer. I replied Is there a difference?
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Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
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The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
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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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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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Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge.
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I never design a building before I’ve seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
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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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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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If it sells, it’s art.
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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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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
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The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you’re an atheist, pretend how God would do it.
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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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