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" Television is chewing gum for the eyes. "

Frank Lloyd Wright

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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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" 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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" 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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" Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity. "

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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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" 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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" Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground. "

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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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" Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change. "

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" Mechanization best serves mediocrity. "

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" I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture. "

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" I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it. "

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" Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles. "

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" 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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" Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. "

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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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" An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site. "

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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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" The space within becomes the reality of the building. "

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" The truth is more important than the facts. "

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