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.
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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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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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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The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
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An idea is salvation by imagination.
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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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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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Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.
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I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.
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All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
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Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation.
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Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
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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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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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Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
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Space is the breath of art.
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