Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
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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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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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
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Nature is my manifestation of God.
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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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I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.
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The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.
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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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Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
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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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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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Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.
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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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A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.
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An idea is salvation by imagination.
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Philip Johnson is a highbrow. A highbrow is a man educated beyond his capacity. His house is a box of glass — not shelter. The meaning of the word shelter includes privacy.
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