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" A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. "
Clients
Mistakes
Doctor
" 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. "
Man
Politics
Rich
" A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart. "
Heart
Great
Brain
" All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable. "
Human
Else
Fine
" A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward. "
Man
Age
Before
" An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site. "
Most
Useful
Bar
" An idea is salvation by imagination. "
Imagination
Salvation
Idea
" Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed. "
Art
Sake
Philosophy
" Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun. "
Children
Buildings
Too
" Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall. "
Dead
You
Wall
" Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change. "
Arrogance
Life
Humility
" Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world. "
World
Think
Great
" Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age. "
Time
Day
Age
" Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union. "
Misunderstood
Spiritual
Union
" Freedom is from within. "
Freedom
Within
" Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. "
Become
Your
Will
" Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities. "
Me
Give Me
Give
" God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see. "
Nature
Great
Said
" Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes. "
Turns
Harvard
Students
" I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. "
Spell
Nature
I Believe
" I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it. "
Someone
Believe
Wish
" I feel coming on a strange disease - humility. "
Humility
Disease
Coming
" If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. "
Up
Finger
Keeps
" I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture. "
Furniture
Blue
Life
" Less is only more where more is no good. "
Only
Where
Good
" Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual. "
Responsibility
Victory
Life
" Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world. "
City
Great
Architecture
" Mechanization best serves mediocrity. "
Mediocrity
Technology
Best
" 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. "
Work
Building
Nature
" New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent. "
New
City
Great
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