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 WRIGHTLimitation is always insult–not flattery.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.
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Imitate nothing except principle.
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We have no longer an outside and an inside as two separate things. Now the outside may come inside and the inside may and does go outside. They are of each other. Form and function thus become one in design and execution if the nature of materials and method and purpose are all in unison.
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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 it sells, it’s art.
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Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
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You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
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Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can’t nail them to a wall.
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Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
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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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Philip Johnson is a highbrow. A highbrow is a man educated beyond his capacity. His house is a box of glass — not shelter. The meaning of the word shelter includes privacy.
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Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.
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Freedom lies within.
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Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.
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