The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you’re an atheist, pretend how God would do it.
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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Nature is my manifestation of God.
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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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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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The measure of a man’s culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.
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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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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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Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.
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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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Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men.
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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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If it sells, it’s art.
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Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.
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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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Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
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