Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes

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• The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as…
• 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…
• 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…
• If it sells, it's art.
• I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
• Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
• The measure of a man's culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.
• Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
• Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been…
• Youth is not an age thing. It's a quality. Once you've had it, you never lose it.
• A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.
• As we live and as we are, Simplicity - with a capital "S" - is difficult to comprehend nowadays. We are no longer truly simple.…
• Less is more only when more is too much.
• Building becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful, to put concordance,…
• You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
• Imitation is always insult--not flattery.
• Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
• An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.
• Architecture is the frame of human existence. We must dedicate this existence more to beauty. For if poetic principle has deserted us, how long are…
• Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great…

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