The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTBuildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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The best thing to do is go as far out as you can get… what you regard as ‘too far’-and when others follow, as they will, move on.
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No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.
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I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.
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Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
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We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.
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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 truth is more important than the facts.
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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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I never design a building before I’ve seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
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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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One war only breeds another.
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We have no longer an outside and an inside as two separate things. Now the outside may come inside and the inside may and does go outside. They are of each other. Form and function thus become one in design and execution if the nature of materials and method and purpose are all in unison.
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A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.
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Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm.
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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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