Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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 box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.
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Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.
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Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
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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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You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.
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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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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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Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust.
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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 my manifestation of God.
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An idea is inevitably a coordination. It is a coming together of something that is separate or disorganized or incomplete. With an idea you begin to feel into the nature of that incompleteness.
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A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.
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All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
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The measure of a man’s culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.
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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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