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Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.
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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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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Architecture isman'sgreat sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as its source because great art isgreat life.
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I do not believe in adding enrichment merely for the sake of enrichment. Unless it adds clearness to the enunciation of the theme, it is undesirable, for it is very little understood.
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The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.
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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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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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More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.
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If you're going to have centralization, why not have it!
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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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A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
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Money shows [man] new ways to cheat life. Power becomes exterior instead of interior. In these circumstances architecture becomes too difficult, building too easy.
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We do not learn so much by our successes as we learn by failures - our own and others! Especially if we see the failures properly corrected.
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San Francisco is the only city I can think of that can survive all the things you people are doing to it and still look beautiful.
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You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.
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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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Architecture is for the young. If our teenagers don't get architecture - if they are not inspired, (then) we won't have the architecture that we must have if this country is going to be beautiful.
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