The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTRegard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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I’ll bridge these hills with graceful arches
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You will find Goodness and Truth everywhere you go. If you have to choose, choose Truth. For that is closest to Earth. Keep close to the Earth, in that lies strength. Simplicity of heart is just as necessary for an architect as for a farmer or a minister if the architect is going to build great buildings.
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A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.
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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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Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.
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Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge.
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More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.
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Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.
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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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Space is the breath of art.
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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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Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
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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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Imitate nothing except principle.
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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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