Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
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I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.
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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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An idea is salvation by imagination.
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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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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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The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
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Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.
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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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Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
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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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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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The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
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Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
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Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
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Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
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TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
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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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So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal.
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There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
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New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.
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Space is the breath of art.