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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

The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Design Wrong
The measure of its nobility and its continuity is its depth of feeling and its sincerity. And if it has that quality, it stands.
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Feeling Philosophy Quality
The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.
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Greatness Human Limitation
Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm.
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Nature Peace Storm
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
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Art Civilization Mom Soul
You will find Goodness and Truth everywhere you go. If you have to choose, choose Truth. For that is closest to Earth. Keep close to the Earth, in that lies strength. Simplicity of heart is just as necessary for an architect as for a farmer or a minister if the architect is going to build great buildings.
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Goodness Lie Simplicity Strength Truth Yourself
A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.
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Human Inspirational Spirit
There is no true understanding of any art without some knowledge of its philosophy. Only then does its meaning come clear.
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Art Knowledge Philosophy True Understand
Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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Civilization Fall
The best friend of earth of man is the tree.
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Friendship Man Tree
I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.
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Danger Fool Hands Myself Start Weapon
An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.
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Funny Man Philosophy Savage Thinking
Give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.
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Happiness Life Luxury Necessary Need
You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.
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Tool Yourself
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.
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Art Human Mindset Nature Simplicity
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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Career Choice Honesty Myself Regret

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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