Each material has its own message.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTAn idea is salvation by imagination.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.
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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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The room within is the great fact about the building.
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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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There is no true understanding of any art without some knowledge of its philosophy. Only then does its meaning come clear.
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Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
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A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.
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If it sells, it’s art.
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The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
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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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An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.
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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 measure of its nobility and its continuity is its depth of feeling and its sincerity. And if it has that quality, it stands.
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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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The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.
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