Frank Lloyd Wright quotes - page 3

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
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No house should ever be on any hill... It should be of the hill.
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Freedom is from within.
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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.
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If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
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Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
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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.
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Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
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Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.
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The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
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Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.
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Less is more only when more is too much.
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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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Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
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It is where life is fundamental and free that men develop the vision needed to reveal the human soul in the blossoms it puts forth.
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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
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I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.
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I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
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The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.
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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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