Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city.
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Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
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No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.
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Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
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Less is only more where more is no good.
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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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New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
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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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Here I am, Philip, am I indoors or am I out? Do I take my hat off or keep it on?
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Freedom is from within.
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The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of the world and remember, it will be a poet, not a scientist.
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I'm no teacher. Never wanted to teach and don't believe in teaching an art. Science yes, business of course..but an art cannot be taught. You can only inculcate it, you can be an exemplar, you can create an atmosphere in which it can grow. Well I suppose I, being an exemplar, could be called a teacher, in spite of myself. So go ahead, call me a teacher.
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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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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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If you’re going to have centralization, why not have it!
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Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.
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All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears - as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.
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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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Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
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Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
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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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An idea is salvation by imagination.
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Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.