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Building Quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright
- 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…
- The room within is the great fact about the building.
- True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building, or a park.…
- A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.
- I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
- A building is not just a place to be but a way to be.
- More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.
- I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
- At night... the streets become rhythmical perspectives of glowing dotted lines, reflections hung upon them in the streets as the wistaria hangs its violet racemes…
- On this simple unit-system [of building blocks] ruled on the low table-top all these forms were combined by the child into imaginative patter. Design was…
- Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
- Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which…
- The space within becomes the reality of the building.
- Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
- Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.
- 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.
- 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…
- The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as…
- 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,…
- Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll [Le Corbusier] go write four books about it.
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