The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.
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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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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I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.
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The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.
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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 longer that I live the more beautiful life becomes.
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Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
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Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
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Nature is my manifestation of God.
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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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One war only breeds another.
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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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The belief in a thing makes it happen.
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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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Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
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