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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTI’ll bridge these hills with graceful arches
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
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I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.
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A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.
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Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.
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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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We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.
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A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn’t afterward.
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
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Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation.
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I don’t know whether you are a saint or a fool said my lawyer. I replied Is there a difference?
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Imitate nothing except principle.
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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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If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
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The truth is more important than the facts.
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The mission of an architect is to help people understand how to make life more beautiful, the world a better one for living in, and to give reason, rhyme, and meaning to life.
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The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
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An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.
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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 room within is the great fact about the building.
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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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You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
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A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advice his clients to plant vines.
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Youth is not an age thing. It’s a quality. Once you’ve had it, you never lose it.
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The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.
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Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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One war only breeds another.
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