Frank Lloyd Wright
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“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.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
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“The truth is more important than the facts.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
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“Every great architect is – necessarily – a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
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“If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
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“Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism… but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
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“Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
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“New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed… a race for rent.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
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“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.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
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“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.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
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“New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed… a race for rent.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
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“Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
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“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
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“An idea is salvation by imagination.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
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“The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
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“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.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
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“Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
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“Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
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“Less is only more where more is no good.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
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“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.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
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“TV is chewing gum for the eyes.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
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“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.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
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“Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
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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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“Mechanization best serves mediocrity.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
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“The architect should strive continually to simplify the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
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“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
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A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn’t afterward. – Frank Lloyd Wright
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