The primitive ideals of centralization are now largely self-defeating. Human crucifixion by vertically on the now static checkerboard of the old city is pattern already in agony; yet for lack of any organic planning it is going on and on-not living, but rather hanging by its eyebrows from its nervous system.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTThe best friend of earth of man is the tree.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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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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The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you’re an atheist, pretend how God would do it.
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Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.
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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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Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm.
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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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Youth is not an age thing. It’s a quality. Once you’ve had it, you never lose it.
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Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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Life is truth.
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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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Limitation is always insult–not flattery.
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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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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge.
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The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.
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Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
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Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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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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The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.
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Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation.
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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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A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.
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Space is the breath of art.
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A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.
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Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.
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