"When we come to understand architecture as the……" — Frank Lloyd Wright
"When we come to understand architecture as the essential nature of all harmonious structure we will see that it is the architecture of music that inspired Bach and Beethoven, the architecture of painting that is inspiring Picasso as it inspired Velasquez, that it is the architecture of life itself that is the inspiration of the great poets and philosophers."
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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.
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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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