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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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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Science can give us only the tools in the box, these mechanical miracles that it has already given us. But of what use to us are miraculous tools until we have mastered the humane, cultural use of them? We do not want to live in a world where the machine has mastered the man we want to live in a world where man has mastered the machine.
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Taste is a matter of ignorance. If you know what you are tasting, you don't have to taste.
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Money shows [man] new ways to cheat life. Power becomes exterior instead of interior. In these circumstances architecture becomes too difficult, building too easy.
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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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If you're going to have centralization, why not have it!
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Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
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Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.
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If the paintings are too large, cut them in half!
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You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
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Entering into the spirit of this interior, you will discover the best possible atmosphere in which to show fine paintings or listen to music. It is this atmosphere that seems to me most lacking in our art galleries, museums, music halls and theaters.
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Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends could only read the title. - Virginia Woolf, from Jacob's Room Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
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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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I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.
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I do not believe in adding enrichment merely for the sake of enrichment. Unless it adds clearness to the enunciation of the theme, it is undesirable, for it is very little understood.
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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
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All I learned from Eliel Saarinen was how to make out an expense account
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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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