"The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines."
Quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright
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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."
"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen."
"There is nothing more uncommon than common sense."
"Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind."
"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines."
"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."
"Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union."
"The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes."
"The truth is more important than the facts."
"If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger."
"Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual."
"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."
"Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now."
"New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent."
"Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities."
"Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you."
"An idea is salvation by imagination."
"The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope."
"The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings."