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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTYouth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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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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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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Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
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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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Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
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Imitate nothing except principle.
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Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.
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I don’t know whether you are a saint or a fool said my lawyer. I replied Is there a difference?
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Early in my career, I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility… I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I’ve never been sorry.
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The Machine is Intellect mastering the drudgery of the earth that the plastic art may live; that the margin of leisure and strength by which man’s life upon earth can be made beautiful, may immeasurably widen; its function ultimately to emancipate human expression!
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One war only breeds another.
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We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.
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Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge.
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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.
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Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
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