Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can’t nail them to a wall.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTThe thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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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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Philip Johnson is a highbrow. A highbrow is a man educated beyond his capacity. His house is a box of glass — not shelter. The meaning of the word shelter includes privacy.
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The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
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Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
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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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Freedom lies within.
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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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An idea is salvation by imagination.
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The longer that I live the more beautiful life becomes.
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Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
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Simplicity and Repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
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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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Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
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Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation.
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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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A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.
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Each material has its own message.
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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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The truth is more important than the facts.
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Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.
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One war only breeds another.
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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.
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Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
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Early in my career, I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility… I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I’ve never been sorry.
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You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
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Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
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