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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTA building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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Life is truth.
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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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Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.
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The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.
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Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
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Nature is my manifestation of God.
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Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.
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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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I never design a building before I’ve seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
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Limitation is always insult–not flattery.
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Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
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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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An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.
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If it sells, it’s art.
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Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can’t nail them to a wall.
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