"True ornament is not a matter of prettifying……" — Frank Lloyd Wright
"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. At its best it is an emphasis of structure, a realization in graceful terms of the nature of that which is ornamented"
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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.
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Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own…
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All the more I study Nature do I revere God, because Nature is all the body of God we will…
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The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have…
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The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you're an atheist, pretend how God would do it.
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The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it…
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Architecture is for the young. If our teenagers don't get architecture - if they are not inspired, (then) we won't…
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You can't make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it.
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Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master's work of art. Individuality is sacred.
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I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist's hand even were that magic…
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Science can give us only the tools in the box, these mechanical miracles that it has already given us. But…
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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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More Adorns Quotes
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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
— Honore de Balzac
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At the time of Holy Communion I sometimes picture my soul under the figure of a little child of three…
— Therese of Lisieux
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Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear…
— Henry David Thoreau
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... where the Greeks had modesty, we have cant; where they had poetry, we have cant; where they had patriotism,…
— Thomas Love Peacock
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To a naturalist nothing is indifferent; the humble moss that creeps upon the stone is equally interesting as the lofty…
— James Hutton
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Indecency in anything spoils it. And modesty in anything adorns it.
— Ibn Majah
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FOLLY, n. That "gift and faculty divine" whose creative and controlling energy inspires Man's mind, guides his actions and adorns…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.
— Robert South
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For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Not he that adorns but he that adores makes a divinity.
— Baltasar Gracian
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Smile may be of different style,but that which adorns the face of a real person is only an honest ONE.
— Anuj
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Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may…
— John Ruskin
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