Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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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There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
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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. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your 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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You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.
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One war only breeds another.
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Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation.
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Each material has its own message.
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A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.
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An idea is salvation by imagination.
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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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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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Nature is my manifestation of God.
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I’ll bridge these hills with graceful arches
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