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Quotations by Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd WrightThe physician can bury his mistakes - 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.

I'm no teacher - I'm no teacher. Never wanted to teach and don't believe in teaching an art. Science yes, business of course..but an art cannot be taught. You can only inculcate it, you can be an exemplar, you can create an atmosphere in which it can grow. Well I suppose I, being an exemplar, could be called a teacher, in spite of myself. So go ahead, call me a teacher.

A house should ever be on something - No house should ever be on any hill or on anything. It should be of the hill, belonging to it, so hill and use could live together each the happier for the other.

Bring out the nature of materials - Bring out the nature of the materials, let their nature intimately into your scheme. . .Reveal the nature of the wood, plaster, brick or stone in your designs: they are all by nature friendly and beautiful.