Organic Architecture Quotes

• I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Inspirational, Life, Stay Strong

  "The Wright Style". Book by Carla Lind, p. 3, 1992.

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

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  God, Atheist, Nature

  Quote magazine, August 14, 1966.

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

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Simplicity, Design, Comfort

  Jennifer Fandel, Frank Lloyd Wright (2005). “Frank Lloyd Wright”, The Creative Company

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

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Mother, Art, Civilization

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The space within becomes the reality of the building.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Reality, Space, Interesting

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• No stream rises higher than its source

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Architect, Source, Streams

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1970). “The Future of Architecture”

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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 the part is to the whole, and where the nature of materials, the nature of the purpose, the nature of the entire performance becomes a necessity-architecture of democracy.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Nature, Fighting, Science

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• Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Inspirational, Funny, Beautiful

  "A Living Architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright and Taliesin Architects". Book by John Rattenbury, 2000.

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• If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Architecture, Ifs, Architect

  "A Living Architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright and Taliesin Architects". Book by John Rattenbury, 2000.

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• The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "My Favorite Quotations". Book Norman Vincent Peale, 1990.

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• There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Graduation, Hope, Carpe Diem

  "The Everlasting Man". Book by G. K. Chesterton, V: Man and Mythologies, 1925.

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• So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal and the teaching so much needed if we are to see the whole of life, and to now serve the whole of life, holding no traditions essential to the great TRADITION. Nor cherishing any preconceived form fixing upon us either past, present or future, but-instead-exalting the simple laws of common sense-or of super-sense if you prefer-determining form by way of the nature of materials.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Teaching, Past, Simple

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1970). “The Future of Architecture”

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• The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Witty, Badass, Mistake

  The New York Times Magazine, October 04, 1953.

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• Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

  Ernest Dimnet

  Art, Badass, Bad Ass

  What We Live By (1932) pt. 2, ch. 12

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• Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Yesterday, Records, World

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1941). “Frank Lloyd Wright on architecture: selected writings 1894-1940”

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• So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Architecture, Modern, Preaching

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1970). “The Future of Architecture”

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• 'Think in simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole to its parts in simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Artist, Simple, Thinking

  "The Future of Architecture".

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• A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Freedom, Mean, Men

  Frank Lloyd Wright (2008). “Modern Architecture: Being the Kahn Lectures for 1930”, p.108, Princeton University Press

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• If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Wise, Wisdom, Finding Yourself

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• TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

  "A Living Architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright and Taliesin Architects". Book by John Rattenbury, 2000.

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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.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Life, Artist, Men

  Frank Lloyd Wright (2008). “The Essential Frank Lloyd Wright: Critical Writings on Architecture”

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• I really wanted to study with Bruce Goff [one of the masters of "organic architecture"] at the University of Oklahoma.

  Paul Laffoley

  Oklahoma, Architecture, Study

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• For America today organic architecture interprets (will eventually build) this local embodiment of human freedom. This natural architecture seeks spaciousness, grace and openness; lightness and strength so completely balanced and logical that it is a new integrity.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Integrity, America, Grace

  Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (1995). “1949-1959”, Rizzoli International Publications

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