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" Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles. "
Frank Lloyd Wright
World
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Land
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" Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it. "
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" Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun. "
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" The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind. "
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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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" Less is only more where more is no good. "
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" Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes. "
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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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" The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it. "
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" There is nothing more uncommon than common sense. "
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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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" 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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Day
Age
" The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty. "
Frank Lloyd Wright
Comfort
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" The truth is more important than the facts. "
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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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" New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent. "
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City
Great
" Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities. "
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Give Me
Give
" Television is chewing gum for the eyes. "
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Eyes
Gum
" Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art. "
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Simplicity
Value
Work
" 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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Man
Life
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" Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic. "
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Great
Republic
Liberty
" 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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Man
Age
Before
" 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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Arrogance
Life
Humility
" Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves. "
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Why
Shake
Buildings
" Space is the breath of art. "
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Space
Breath
Design
" Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world. "
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World
Think
Great
" Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity. "
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Architecture
Comfort
Sense
" 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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Furniture
Blue
Life
" All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable. "
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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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