Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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An idea is salvation by imagination.
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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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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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The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
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The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
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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 architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
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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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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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I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.
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The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.
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Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
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The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
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Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.
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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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Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
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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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Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
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Space is the breath of art.
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New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.
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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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Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.