The longer that I live the more beautiful life becomes.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHTYou have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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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.
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Life is truth.
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Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.
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A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.
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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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I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.
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Nature is my manifestation of God.
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Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
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The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.
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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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I’ll bridge these hills with graceful arches
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The belief in a thing makes it happen.
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Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
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Freedom lies within.
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You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.
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Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge.
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Simplicity and Repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
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Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.
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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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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
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The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
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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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An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.
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Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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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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