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!
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTToleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.
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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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You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
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Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
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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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If it sells, it’s art.
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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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Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.
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Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.
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An idea is salvation by imagination.
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There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
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Each material has its own message.
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The belief in a thing makes it happen.
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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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