Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

—Frank Lloyd Wright

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Frank Lloyd Wright Sr. (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator. He designed more than 1,000 structures over a creative period of 70 years. Wright played a key role in the architectural movements of the twentieth century, influencing architects worldwide through his...

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

—Frank Lloyd Wright

Less is only more where more is no good.

—Frank Lloyd Wright

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.

—Frank Lloyd Wright

Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our span upon this earth. They touch the heavens, and sail serenely at an altitude beyond even the imaginings of a mere mortal.

—Frank Lloyd Wright

An idea is salvation by imagination.

—Frank Lloyd Wright

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Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

—Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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I installed a skylight in my apartment… the people who live above me are furious!

—Steven Wright

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It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear.

—Douglas Adams

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If I were to spit upon the revered black stone in Mecca during the height of the annual pilgrimage, I would be slain on the spot by enraged pilgrims for daring to profane the sacred symbol of Islam. An Israeli soldier's bullet in the back would be my deserved fate for scrawling graffiti upon the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem.… Life would not be pleasant for me if I took a hammer to the Pietàs in the Vatican, for we humans hold our creations dear, and we deal harshly with those who fail to share our reverence for old stone walls, meteorites, marble statues, icons, and architecture.… Yet each and every day, humans enter the most sacred and reverential cathedrals of the natural world—the redwood forests of northern California or the rain forests of Amazonia—and each and every day we profanely rape these great mysteries with chain saws and bulldozers.

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Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

—Philip Johnson

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