Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTThe room within is the great fact about the building.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
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Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
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As we work along our various ways, there takes shape within us, in some sort, an ideal – something we are to become – some work to be done. This, I think, is denied to very few, and we begin really to live only when the thrill of this ideality moves us in what we will to accomplish.
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Freedom lies within.
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Space is the breath of art.
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Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
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Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm.
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Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
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The 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.
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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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Less is more only when more is too much.
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They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.
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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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Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.
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Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.
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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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A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advice his clients to plant vines.
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Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
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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 human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.
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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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Each material has its own message.
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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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Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.
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