Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist’s hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion.
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An idea is salvation by imagination.
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I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.
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Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
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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.
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Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.
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The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
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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.
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The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
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Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
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Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
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Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
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There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
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Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
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Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.
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Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
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So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal.
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The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.
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The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.
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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.
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TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
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New York is the biggest mouth in the world. It appears to be prime example of the herd instinct, leading the universal urban conspiracy to beguile man from his birthright (the good ground), to hang him by his eyebrows from skyhooks above hard pavement, to crucify him, sell him, or be sold by him.
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An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.