An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
Quote by Frank Lloyd Wright
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An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
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Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
- Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
- 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.
- Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
- Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
- 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.
- A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.
- Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
- Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
- A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
- God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
Best Quotes
- The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing museums are scaling back.
- My dad takes care of me as a manager and as a dad. That's his job, you know, to take care of me. He has my best interests at heart.
- We just put General Motors in the hands of people who can't even run our own government.
- I was thinking that when I have children, that I should always dress as a character for them, so they think their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella.
- Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.
- Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.
- And fifth, we will champion small businesses, America's engine of job growth. That means reducing taxes on business, not raising them. It means simplifying and modernizing the regulations that hurt small business the most. And it means that we must rein in the skyrocketing cost of healthcare by repealing and replacing Obamacare.
- Our pets rely on us entirely for their nutrition. So if you're making your own judgments, that could lead to a mistake. At the same time, we have more control over our pet's diet than we do with our children or with ourselves, so your vet can tell you what is appropriate for your dog and you can assign them that.
- Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
- Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.