FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT'S
FAMOUS
"QUOTES "
On Architecture...
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"I never design a building before I've
seen the site and met the people who will be using it."
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"My building will last at least 300 years"
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"So flexible and simple as to be almost
unbelievable."
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"If the paintings are too large, cut them
in half!" - When questioned about
the low ceilings in the Guggenheim Museum.
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"The sense of space within the reality
of any building is a new concept wherever Architecture is concerned. But
it is essential ancient principle just the same and is not only necessary
now but implied by the ideal of democracy itself."
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"Wherever human life is concerned, the
unnatural stricture of excessive verticality cannot stand against more
natural horizontality." -- On skyscrapers.
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"Beautiful buildings are more than
scientific. They are true organisms, spiritually conceived; works
of art, using the best technology by inspiration rather than the idiosyncrasies
of mere taste or any averaging by the committee mind."
On
Government...
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"Maybe we can show government how to operate
better as a result of better architecture."
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"Architectural features of true democratic
ground-freedom would rise naturally from topography, which means that buildings
would all take on the nature and character of the ground on which in endless
variety they would stand and be component part."
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"He was too good for the job." -- When
asked why he didn't vote for a particular presidential candidate.
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"The dynamic ideal we call democracy, gradually
growing up in the human heart for two-thousand five hundred years, at least,
has now every opportunity to found the natural democratic state in these
United States of America by way of natural economic order and a natural,
or organic, architecture."
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"Again in America we erect temples but
this time not so much to the mystery of great terrestrial or cosmic forces
as to the interior or spirit-power of manhood as released by American democracy
and its sciences."
On Nature...
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"I'll bridge these hills with graceful
arches"
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"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 built."
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"No house should ever be on any hill or
on anything. It should be of the hill, belonging to it, so hill and house
could live together each the happier for the other."
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"The outside of any building may now come
inside and the inside go outside, each seems as part of the other. Continuity,
plasticity, and all the new simplicity the imply have at last come home."
On Life...
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"...The next one." -- When asked which
was his favorite project.
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"It is a terrific thing to get a building
built that has the qualities of greatness in it."
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"Noble life demands a noble architecture
for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant:
ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall."
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"Take care of the luxuries and the necessities
will take care of themselves."
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