Give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.
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.
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No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.
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Nature is my manifestation of God.
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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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If it sells, it’s art.
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A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.
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Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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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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The longer that I live the more beautiful life becomes.
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Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
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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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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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Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
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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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The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
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