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Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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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Less is more only when more is too much.
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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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Consider everything in the nature of a hanging fixture a weakness, and naked radiators an abomination.
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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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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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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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A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.
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