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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. "
Frank Lloyd Wright
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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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" Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. "
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" 'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles. "
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" Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves. "
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" The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it. "
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" Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall. "
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" The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect. "
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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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" Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual. "
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" The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind. "
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" Space is the breath of art. "
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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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" 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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" I feel coming on a strange disease - humility. "
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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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" 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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" Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun. "
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" Mechanization best serves mediocrity. "
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