"A building is not just a place to…" — Frank Lloyd Wright

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165 Quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright

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I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.
Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own…
All the more I study Nature do I revere God, because Nature is all the body of God we will…
The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have…
The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you're an atheist, pretend how God would do it.
The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it…
Architecture is for the young. If our teenagers don't get architecture - if they are not inspired, (then) we won't…
You can't make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it.
Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master's work of art. Individuality is sacred.
I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist's hand even were that magic…
Science can give us only the tools in the box, these mechanical miracles that it has already given us. But…
We've been fighting from the beginning for organic architecture. That is, architecture where the whole is to the part as…

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I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one. — Luis Barragan
My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience. — Luis Barragan
Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money. — Ambrose Bierce
No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language. — Theodore Bikel
Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat… — Alvar Aalto
We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and… — Alvar Aalto
A picture is worth a thousand words. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split… — Alvar Aalto
Architecture is inhabited sculpture. — Constantin Brancusi
The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit… — Alvar Aalto
I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in… — Dan Brown
Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases.… — Dan Brown

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