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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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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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Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it.
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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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I find that government can be a kind of gangsterism and is in Russia. And is likely to be in America if we don't take care of ourselves pretty carefully.
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One war only breeds another.
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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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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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The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.
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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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To know what to leave out and what to put in just where and just how, ah, that is to have been educated in knowledge of simplicity.
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I voted for Stevenson as opposed to Eisenhower because I thought he would make a good president, but against my conscience because I thought that he was too good for the job.
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The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
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Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth
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I know we can't have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord.
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San Francisco is the only city I can think of that can survive all the things you people are doing to it and still look beautiful.
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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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The best thing to do is go as far out as you can get... what you regard as 'too far' - and when others follow, as they will, move on
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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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