Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes

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• The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Hurt

  Mark Hertzberg, Frank Lloyd Wright (2004). “Wright in Racine: The Architect's Vision for One American City”, p.11, Pomegranate

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• Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Inspirational, Life, Stay Strong

  "The Wright Style". Book by Carla Lind, p. 3, 1992.

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• We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Circles, Community, Building

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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

  Spiritual, Design, Misunderstood

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• A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Building, Surroundings, Should

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1925). “Frank Lloyd Wright: The Complete 1925 "Wendingen" Series”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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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

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

  "A Living Architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright and Taliesin Architects". Book by John Rattenbury, 2000.

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• A building is not just a place to be but a way to be.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Inspiration, Way, Architecture

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• You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Motivational, Graduation, Long Distance Relationship

  Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (1987). “Frank Lloyd Wright: his living voice”, California State University (Fresno)

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• Space is the breath of art.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Art, Space, Architecture

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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.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Farewell, Artist, House

  Frank Lloyd Wright (2005). “Frank Lloyd Wright: An Autobiography”, p.168, Pomegranate

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• Less is only more where more is no good.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Sweet, Artist, Interesting

  Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (1995). “1949-1959”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Beautiful, Art, Discovery

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• You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Design, Hammers, Use

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• If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Architecture, Ifs, Architect

  "A Living Architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright and Taliesin Architects". Book by John Rattenbury, 2000.

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• We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Home, Should, Snail

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• The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Mother, Art, Civilization

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Beautiful, Men, Woods

  Frank Lloyd Wright, Edgar Kaufmann, Ben Raeburn (1960). “Frank Lloyd Wright: writings and buildings”

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• I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  God, Atheist, Nature

  Quote magazine, August 14, 1966.

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• I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  People, Design, Building

  79 Copy quote

• Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Inspiration, Ornamentation

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• When we come to understand architecture as the essential nature of all harmonious structure we will see that it is the architecture of music that inspired Bach and Beethoven, the architecture of painting that is inspiring Picasso as it inspired Velasquez, that it is the architecture of life itself that is the inspiration of the great poets and philosophers.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Inspiration, Essentials, Philosopher

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1992). “Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1931-1939”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns

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• Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use the word order.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Badass, Bad Ass, Reality

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• Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Simplicity, Design, Comfort

  Jennifer Fandel, Frank Lloyd Wright (2005). “Frank Lloyd Wright”, The Creative Company

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• An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Inspirational, Work, Men

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