QUOTES by Frank Lloyd Wright
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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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"...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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"The measure of its nobility and its continuity is its depth of feeling and its sincerity. And if it has that quality, it stands. "Toward a New architecture" July 14, 1957"
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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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"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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"Philip Johnson is a highbrow. A highbrow is a man educated beyond his capacity. His house is a box of glass — not shelter. The meaning of the word shelter includes privacy."
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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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"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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"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."
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"To me, young has no meaning. It’s something you can do nothing about, nothing at all. But youth is a quality. And if you have it, you never lose it."
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"Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world."
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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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"The measure of a man's culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more."
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"Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change."
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"Give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities."
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"You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having."
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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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"Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions."
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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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"Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles."
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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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"Love is the virtue of the Heart, Sincerity is the virtue of the Mind, Decision is the virtue of the Will, Courage is the virtue of the Spirit."
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"A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working."
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"Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you."
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"Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work."
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"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters."
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"Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been sorry."
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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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An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
Quote by -Frank Lloyd Wright