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.
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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Limitation is always insult–not flattery.
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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.
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Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.
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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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Life is truth.
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Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men.
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As we work along our various ways, there takes shape within us, in some sort, an ideal – something we are to become – some work to be done. This, I think, is denied to very few, and we begin really to live only when the thrill of this ideality moves us in what we will to accomplish.
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An idea is salvation by imagination.
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The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.
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Simplicity and Repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
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Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
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Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
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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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I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
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