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 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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Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.
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If it sells, it’s art.
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The best friend of earth of man is the tree.
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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.
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I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
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They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.
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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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I never design a building before I’ve seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
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A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.
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Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
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Life is truth.
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Space is the breath of art.
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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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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.
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Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
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