Building becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful, to put concordance, sympathy with nature, and all that into it. Then you have architecture.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTThere is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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Simplicity and Repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
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Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
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If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
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Nature is my manifestation of God.
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Each material has its own message.
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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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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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Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
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Youth is not an age thing. It’s a quality. Once you’ve had it, you never lose it.
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
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The primitive ideals of centralization are now largely self-defeating. Human crucifixion by vertically on the now static checkerboard of the old city is pattern already in agony; yet for lack of any organic planning it is going on and on-not living, but rather hanging by its eyebrows from its nervous system.
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If it sells, it’s art.
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Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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The truth is more important than the facts.
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Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.
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