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 WRIGHTThe 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.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.
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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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The longer that I live the more beautiful life becomes.
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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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An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.
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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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Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.
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Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
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There is no true understanding of any art without some knowledge of its philosophy. Only then does its meaning come clear.
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The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.
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The best friend of earth of man is the tree.
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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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If it sells, it’s art.
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Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
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Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.
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