Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
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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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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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I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.
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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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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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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 longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
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Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
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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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An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
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The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.
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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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TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
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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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Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
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Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.