The longer that I live the more beautiful life becomes.
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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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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I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.
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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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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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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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Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
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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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Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
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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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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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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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If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
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Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
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Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.
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