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" If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. "
Frank Lloyd Wright
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" 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. "
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" I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. "
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" The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings. "
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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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" Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes. "
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" All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable. "
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" An idea is salvation by imagination. "
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" Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed. "
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" Less is only more where more is no good. "
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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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" The truth is more important than the facts. "
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" Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age. "
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" Freedom is from within. "
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" Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. "
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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 heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind. "
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" Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic. "
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" 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. "
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" Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities. "
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" Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. "
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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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" Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall. "
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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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" Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now. "
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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 space within becomes the reality of the building. "
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" Space is the breath of art. "
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" Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it. "
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" A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. "
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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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