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Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
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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Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
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The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of the world and remember, it will be a poet, not a scientist.
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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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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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Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
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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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Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.
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You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
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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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A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.
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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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New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
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Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
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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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