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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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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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So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal.
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The measure of a man's culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.
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No house should ever be on any hill... It should be of the hill.
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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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More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.
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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
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Prison house for the soul
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Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.
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Space. The continual becoming: invisible fountain from which all rhythms flow and to which they must pass. Beyond time or infinity
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Building becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful, to put concordance, sympathy with nature, and all that into it. Then you have architecture.
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