Frank Lloyd Wright
Architect
1867-06-08
Quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright
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Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.
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If it sells, it's art.
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A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.
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An idea is salvation by imagination
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If it sells, it's art.
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A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.
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Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.
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An idea is salvation by imagination
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Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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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.
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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 more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.
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Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
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Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
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Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.
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Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
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The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.
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Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
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No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.
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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.
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