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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTDining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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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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Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
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One war only breeds another.
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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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An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.
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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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A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advice his clients to plant vines.
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Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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The best friend of earth of man is the tree.
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All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
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Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
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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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An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.
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I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.
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Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.
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