Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
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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Freedom lies within.
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Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
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All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
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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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Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
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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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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.
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Youth is not an age thing. It’s a quality. Once you’ve had it, you never lose it.
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A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advice his clients to plant vines.
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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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Nature is my manifestation of God.
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Each material has its own message.
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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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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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Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.
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The room within is the great fact about the building.
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Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
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More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.
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Less is more only when more is too much.
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Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.
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Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you’re an atheist, pretend how God would do it.
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Space is the breath of art.
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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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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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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
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