Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes

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• 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.
• 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…
• Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
• Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
• Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
• I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
• The truth is more important than the facts.
• There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
• The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
• TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
• A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
• Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
• Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
• The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
• Less is only more where more is no good.
• 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…
• 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.
• An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
• Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
• I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.

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