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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.
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 create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.
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I'm against war. Always have been, always will be. And everything connected with it, is anathema to me. I have never considered it necessary.
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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
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When anyone becomes an authority, that is the end of him as far as development is concerned.
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Less is more only when more is too much.
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'Think in simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole to its parts in simplest terms, getting back to first principles.
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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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More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.
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To me, young has no meaning. It's something you can do nothing about, nothing at all. But youth is a quality. And if you have it, you never lose it.
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From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn't fastened down slides into Southern California.
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The tall modern office building is the machine pure and simple...the engine, the motor and the battleship the works of the century.
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Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth
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No house should ever be on any hill... It should be of the hill.
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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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Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.
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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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Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master's work of art. Individuality is sacred.
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