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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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" 'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles. "

Frank Lloyd Wright

Principles

Think

Simple

" New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent. "

" 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. "

" Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual. "

" Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities. "

Frank Lloyd Wright

Give Me

Give

" Space is the breath of art. "

" The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind. "

" Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change. "

" Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art. "

" Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now. "

" Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it. "

Frank Lloyd Wright

Write

Well

" Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. "

" Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world. "

" Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity. "

" Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves. "

" The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it. "

Frank Lloyd Wright

Civilization

Lincoln

" Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic. "

" The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. "

" I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture. "

" The space within becomes the reality of the building. "

" I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. "

" I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it. "

" Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes. "

" Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances. "

" Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. "

" Mechanization best serves mediocrity. "

" Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain. "

" Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles. "

" Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union. "

" The truth is more important than the facts. "

Frank Lloyd Wright

Facts

Truth