Best Quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright (Top 10)
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Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
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I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
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Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
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You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
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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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Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
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An idea is salvation by imagination.
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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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More Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
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The truth is more important than the facts.
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Space is the breath of art.
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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
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If it sells, it's art.
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There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
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The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.
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Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
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Television is bubble-gum for the mind
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Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
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Less is only more where more is no good.
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Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
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Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
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Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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Freedom is from within.
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
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Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
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The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
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If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
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Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
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The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
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An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
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The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.
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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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A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.
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TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
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I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.
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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
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Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
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The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas.
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I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.
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I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.
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