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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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Frank Lloyd Wright
Age: 92 †
Born: 1867
Born: June 8
Died: 1959
Died: September 9
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Humanity to me is not a mob. A mob is a degeneration of humanity. A mob is humanity going the wrong way.
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I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
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I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist's hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion.
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Architectural features of true democratic ground-freedom would rise naturally from topography, which means that buildings would all take on the nature and character of the ground on which in endless variety they would stand and be component part.
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As we live and as we are, Simplicity - with a capital S - is difficult to comprehend nowadays. We are no longer truly simple. We no longer live in simple terms or places. Life is a more complex struggle now. It is now valiant to be simple: a courageous thing to even want to be simple. It is a spiritual thing to comprehend what simplicity means
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True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building, or a park. At its best it is an emphasis of structure, a realization in graceful terms of the nature of that which is ornamented
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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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Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.
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If you're going to have centralization, why not have it!
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We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.
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The sense of space within the reality of any building is a new concept wherever architecture is concerned. But it is essential ancient principle just the same and is not only necessary now but implied by the ideal of democracy itself.
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More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.
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All the more I study Nature do I revere God, because Nature is all the body of God we will ever know.
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I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.
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Our forefathers were not only brave. I believe they were right. I believe that what they meant was that every man born had equal right to grow from scratch by way of his own power unhindered to the highest expression of himself possible to him.
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So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal.
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A vital difference between the professional man and a man of business is that money making to the professional man should, by virtue of his assumption, be incidental to the businessman it is primary. Money has its limitations while it may buy quantity, there is something beyond it and that is quality.
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