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Frank Lloyd Wright
Age: 92 †
Born: 1867
Born: June 8
Died: 1959
Died: September 9
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Taste is a matter of ignorance. If you know what you are tasting, you don't have to taste.
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Our forefathers were not only brave. I believe they were right. I believe that what they meant was that every man born had equal right to grow from scratch by way of his own power unhindered to the highest expression of himself possible to him.
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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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'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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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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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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The truth is more important than the facts.
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They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.
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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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The baby boomers are out there, they've had a lot of good years of earnings, they've inherited wealth. They are buying trophy homes and will be for years. We are one of those places people dream of. They come here to buy a piece of that dream.
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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 find that government can be a kind of gangsterism and is in Russia. And is likely to be in America if we don't take care of ourselves pretty carefully.
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I know we can't have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord.
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We boast the highest standard of living when it's only the biggest.
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Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
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Now, of course, architecture is a blind spot of our life in America today. How many millions of students go to the university to be educated? They come away conditioned, not enlightened, and they know nothing of architecture, although they have a department somewhere around -- probably in the basement.
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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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