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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.

Frank Lloyd Wright

I’ll bridge these hills with graceful arches
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Myself Nature
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 WRIGHT

Art Human Mindset Nature Simplicity
An idea is salvation by imagination.
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Ideas Imagination
Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Nature Peace Storm
An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Business Tool
No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.
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Happiness Home Live Nature Togetherness
Limitation is always insult–not flattery.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Limitation Praise
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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Career Choice Honesty Myself Regret
Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
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Beautiful Greatness Myself Thinking World
The best friend of earth of man is the tree.
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Friendship Man Tree
Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Civilization Fall
Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Eyes Technology
Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Grow Up Old Youth
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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Beautiful Goodness Hurt
Youth is not an age thing. It’s a quality. Once you’ve had it, you never lose it.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Age Lose Perspective Quality Youth
Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can’t nail them to a wall.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Death Food Wall

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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