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.
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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Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
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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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The best friend of earth of man is the tree.
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Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.
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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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Freedom lies within.
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.
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Nature is my manifestation of God.
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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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One war only breeds another.
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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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Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
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The best thing to do is go as far out as you can get… what you regard as ‘too far’-and when others follow, as they will, move on.
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Less is more only when more is too much.
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Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can’t nail them to a wall.
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