Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes

Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Greatness Liberty Tolerance
A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Appearance Easy Growth Nature
Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
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Body God Nature See
Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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Civilization Fall
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Life Man Philosophy
Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
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Lose World
I never design a building before I’ve seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Design Myself People
Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
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Children Myself
The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.
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Beautiful Goodness Hurt
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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Believe God Myself Nature
Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge.
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Goodness Knowledge One Liner Taste
Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.
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Beautiful Human Man Material Worth
The truth is more important than the facts.
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Important Truth
A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.
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Human Inspirational Spirit
An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.
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Funny Man Philosophy Savage Thinking
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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Art Knowledge Philosophy True Understand
An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.
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Business Tool
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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Action Best Move On Regard Yourself
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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Beautiful Business Man Mindset Nature
Youth is not an age thing. It’s a quality. Once you’ve had it, you never lose it.
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Age Lose Perspective Quality Youth
Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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Art Food Philosophy
Each material has its own message.
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Material One Liner Worth
Space is the breath of art.
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Art Breathe Space
Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust.
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Himself Man Nature Philosophy Worth
We have no longer an outside and an inside as two separate things. Now the outside may come inside and the inside may and does go outside. They are of each other. Form and function thus become one in design and execution if the nature of materials and method and purpose are all in unison.
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Design Each Other Material Nature Oneself Philosophy Purpose
Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
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Eyes Technology
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Life Luxury Necessary Willing

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