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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTThe room within is the great fact about the building.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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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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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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The measure of its nobility and its continuity is its depth of feeling and its sincerity. And if it has that quality, it stands.
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One war only breeds another.
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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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The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
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They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.
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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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Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
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I never design a building before I’ve seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
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Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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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.
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The truth is more important than the facts.
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Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm.
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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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