Human beings can be beautiful. If they a... by Frank Lloyd Wright | We Heart Quotes

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Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

Other quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright

Nature God Will

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.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and a devotion to the things you want to see happen.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

Children

Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

Money Power

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

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

- Frank Lloyd Wright

Heart

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.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

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