Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Remy de Gourmont An idea is salvation by imagination
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Space is the breath of art.
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The truth is more important than the facts.
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Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
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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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I do not believe in adding enrichment merely for the sake of enrichment. Unless it adds clearness to the enunciation of the theme, it is undesirable, for it is very little understood.
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Consider everything in the nature of a hanging fixture a weakness, and naked radiators an abomination.
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Television is bubble-gum for the mind.
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All I learned from Eliel Saarinen was how to make out an expense account
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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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The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
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San Francisco is the only city I can think of that can survive all the things you people are doing to it and still look beautiful.
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No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.
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Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use the word order.
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Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm.
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Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge
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The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.
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The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.
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Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use.
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Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
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For America today organic architecture interprets (will eventually build) this local embodiment of human freedom. This natural architecture seeks spaciousness, grace and openness; lightness and strength so completely balanced and logical that it is a new integrity.
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On this simple unit-system [of building blocks] ruled on the low table-top all these forms were combined by the child into imaginative patter. Design was recreation! ...The virtue of all this lay in the awakening of the childmind to rhythmic structure in Nature - giving the child a sense of innate cause-and-effect otherwise far beyond child-comprehension.
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
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If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it.
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When anyone becomes an authority, that is the end of him as far as development is concerned.
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I'm against war. Always have been, always will be. And everything connected with it, is anathema to me. I have never considered it necessary.
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All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
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If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
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I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
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When we come to understand architecture as the essential nature of all harmonious structure we will see that it is the architecture of music that inspired Bach and Beethoven, the architecture of painting that is inspiring Picasso as it inspired Velasquez, that it is the architecture of life itself that is the inspiration of the great poets and philosophers.
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