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

—Frank Lloyd Wright

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

—Frank Lloyd Wright

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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

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Having this, and losing it, made it even sweeter the second time around.

—R.K. Lilley in Lovely Trigger

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One day Joseph Lister was summoned to assist a wealthy lord with a fishbone that had lodged at the back of his throat. After Lister had skillfully removed the obstruction, the grateful patient asked him what he was owed. "My lord," Lister suggested, "suppose we settle for half of what you would be willing to give me if the bone were still lodged in your throat.

—The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes

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They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

—Kahlil Gibran

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Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

—Albert Einstein

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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

—H. L. Mencken

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