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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. "
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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" The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it. "
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" TV is chewing gum for the eyes. "
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" Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it. "
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" I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. "
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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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" The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind. "
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" Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves. "
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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 architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity. "
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" Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world. "
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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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" Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic. "
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" All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable. "
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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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" 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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