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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.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work,
and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
An idea is salvation by imagination.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The truth is more important than the facts.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The thing always happens that you really believe in;
and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Nature is my manifestation of God.
I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Freedom is from within.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
No stream rises higher than its source.
Whatever 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.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
An architect's most useful tools are
an eraser at the drafting board,
and a wrecking bar at the site.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature,
and it has often been said by philosophers,
that nature is the will of God.
And I prefer to say that nature
is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Less is only more where more is no good.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
A doctor can bury his mistakes
but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Give me the luxuries of life
and I will willingly do without the necessities.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Study nature, love nature,
stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60.
They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students,
and turns them into prunes.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Regard it as just as desirable to build
a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Tip the world over on its side and
everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood.
Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50,
and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
I believe totally in a Capitalist System,
I only wish that someone would try it.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
"Think simple" as my old master used to say -
meaning reduce the whole of its parts
into the simplest terms,
getting back to first principles.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The present is the ever moving shadow
that divides yesterday from tomorrow.
In that lies hope.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons
out of the hands of fools.
Let's start with typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
New York City is a great monument
to the power of money and greed...
a race for rent.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
If it keeps up, man will atrophy
all his limbs but the push-button finger.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance
and hypocritical humility.
I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Get the habit of analysis -
analysis will in time enable synthesis
to become your habit of mind.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use
and a finer sense of comfort,
expressed in organic simplicity.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Space is the breath of art.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The architect must be a prophet...
a prophet in the true sense of the term...
if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Lack of culture means what it has always meant:
ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet.
He must be a great original interpreter
of his time, his day, his age.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The space within becomes the reality of the building.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Life always rides in strength to victory,
not through internationalism...
but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Organic buildings are the strength
and lightness of the spiders' spinning,
buildings qualified by light,
bred by native character to environment,
married to the ground.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man.
There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city
is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Simplicity and repose are qualities
that measure the true value of any work of art.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga
and the civilization that wore it.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
A free America... means just this:
individual freedom for all, rich or poor,
or else this system of government we call democracy
is only an expedient to enslave man
to the machine and make him like it.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius
He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
- Harold Wilson
Gratitude is an attitude that
hooks us up to our source of supply.
And the more grateful you are,
the closer you become to your maker,
to the architect of the universe,
to the spiritual core of your being.
- Bob Proctor
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care
for people will hear them and be influenced
by them for good or ill.
- The Buddha
We should be too big to take offense
and too noble to give it.
- Abraham Lincoln
We may have our private opinions
but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb
If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.
- Henry David Thoreau
We should not pretend to understand the world
only by the intellect.
The judgment of the intellect
is only part of the truth.
- Carl Jung
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