The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTYou 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.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
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Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.
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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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Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
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The primitive ideals of centralization are now largely self-defeating. Human crucifixion by vertically on the now static checkerboard of the old city is pattern already in agony; yet for lack of any organic planning it is going on and on-not living, but rather hanging by its eyebrows from its nervous system.
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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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A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.
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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.
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Nature is my manifestation of God.
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The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.
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Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
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The best friend of earth of man is the tree.
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Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge.
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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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