More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTAn idea is inevitably a coordination. It is a coming together of something that is separate or disorganized or incomplete. With an idea you begin to feel into the nature of that incompleteness.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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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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Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
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Less is more only when more is too much.
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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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Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
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Life is truth.
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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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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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The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
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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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Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
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All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
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An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.
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Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
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