Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTAll fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
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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Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
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Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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One war only breeds another.
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
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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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You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.
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There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
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Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
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Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
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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 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!
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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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More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.
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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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