Frank Lloyd Wright
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“A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.”
― Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)
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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.”
― Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)
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“I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.”
― Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)
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“As we live and as we are, Simplicity - with a capital "S" - is difficult to comprehend nowadays. We are no longer truly simple. We no longer live in simple terms or places. Life is a more complex struggle now. It is now valiant to be simple: a courageous thing to even want to be simple. It is a spiritual thing to comprehend what simplicity means.”
― Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)
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“A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.”
― Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)
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“The truth is more important than the facts.”
― Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)
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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.”
― Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)
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“There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.”
― Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)
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“Youth is not an age thing. It's a quality. Once you've had it, you never lose it.”
― Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)
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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.”
― Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)
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“Less is more only when more is too much.”
― Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)
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“Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.”
― Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)
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“Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.”
― Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)
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“give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.”
― Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)
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“The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.”
― Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)
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“1. An honest ego in a healthy body
2. An eye to see nature
3. A heart to feel nature
4. Courage to follow nature
5. A sense of proportion (humor)
6. Appreciation of work as idea and idea as work
7. Fertility of imagination
8. Capacity for faith and rebellion
9. Disregard for commonplace (inorganic) elegance
10. Instinctive cooperation”
― Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)
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“An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.”
― Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)
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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.”
― Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)
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“Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed. ”
― Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)
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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.”
― Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)
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“An Idea Is Salvation By Imagination."
― Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)
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“An idea is inevitably a coordination. It is a coming together of something that is separate or disorganized or incomplete. With an idea you begin to feel into the nature of that incompleteness".
― Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)
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"The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas"
― Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)
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"Television is chewing gum for the eyes."
― Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)