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" Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art. "
Frank Lloyd Wright
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" I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. "
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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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" Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual. "
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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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" Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity. "
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" No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other. "
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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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" Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it. "
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" Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances. "
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" The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes. "
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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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" 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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" There is nothing more uncommon than common sense. "
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" 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. "
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" If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. "
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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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" All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable. "
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