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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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We should have a system of economics that is structure that is organic tools. We do not have it. We are all hanging by our eyebrows from skyhooks economically, just as we are architecturally.
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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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I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.
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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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Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
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Consider everything in the nature of a hanging fixture a weakness, and naked radiators an abomination.
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I think Miss Monroe as architecture is extremely good architecture, and she's a very natural actress, and a very good one.
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A building is not just a place to be but a way to be.
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I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.
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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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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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If the paintings are too large, cut them in half!
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The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.
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