Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.
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The truth is more important than the facts.
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
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Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
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Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.
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Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
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Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived.
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The space within becomes the reality of the building.
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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.
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If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
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Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
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Mechanization best serves mediocrity.
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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.
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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.
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'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.
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Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
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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.
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The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
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Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.
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A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
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I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.
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Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.