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 WRIGHTEventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.
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Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
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The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
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The best thing to do is go as far out as you can get… what you regard as ‘too far’-and when others follow, as they will, move on.
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An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.
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Less is more only when more is too much.
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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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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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There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
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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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Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm.
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Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
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Limitation is always insult–not flattery.
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The truth is more important than the facts.
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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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