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An 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.

Frank Lloyd Wright

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn’t afterward.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Age Drink Fool Man
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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Beyond Education Man Praise Privacy
Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Civilization Fall
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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Art Human Mindset Nature Simplicity
Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Art Food Philosophy
A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advice his clients to plant vines.
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Advice Mistake Plant
They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Country Fall
All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Human Material Value
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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Beautiful Help Life Live People Reason Understand World
One war only breeds another.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

One Liner Oneself War
Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
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Children Earth Nature Sun
Imitate nothing except principle.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

One Liner Principle
Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Greatness Liberty Tolerance
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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Design Each Other Material Nature Oneself Philosophy Purpose
Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can’t nail them to a wall.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Death Food Wall
The best friend of earth of man is the tree.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Friendship Man Tree

An 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.

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An 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.

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