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.
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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Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.
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Each material has its own message.
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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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More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.
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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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I never design a building before I’ve seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
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Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can’t nail them to a wall.
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The measure of its nobility and its continuity is its depth of feeling and its sincerity. And if it has that quality, it stands.
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The belief in a thing makes it happen.
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Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
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The mission of an architect is to help people understand how to make life more beautiful, the world a better one for living in, and to give reason, rhyme, and meaning to life.
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An idea is salvation by imagination.
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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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