An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTI’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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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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A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.
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You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
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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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Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men.
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All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
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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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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.
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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 longer that I live the more beautiful life becomes.
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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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I’ll bridge these hills with graceful arches
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Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
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Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.
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