Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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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 feel coming on a strange disease - humility.
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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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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
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An idea is salvation by imagination.
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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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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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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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Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
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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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Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
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Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
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Television 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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There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
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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 Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.
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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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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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Space is the breath of art.