Frank Lloyd Wright quotes

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. View quote
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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. View quote
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A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. View quote
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Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles. View quote
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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. View quote
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Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. View quote
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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. View quote
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An idea is salvation by imagination. View quote
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The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope. View quote
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All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable. (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. View quote
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Television is chewing gum for the eyes. View quote
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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. View quote
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The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. View quote
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There is nothing more uncommon than common sense. View quote
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities. View quote
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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. View quote
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I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist's hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion. View quote
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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. View quote
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Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
I know the price of success dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen. View quote
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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. View quote
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A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working. View quote
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Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived. View quote
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