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Frank Lloyd Wright
Age: 92 †
Born: 1867
Born: June 8
Died: 1959
Died: September 9
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As we live and as we are, Simplicity - with a capital S - is difficult to comprehend nowadays. We are no longer truly simple. We no longer live in simple terms or places. Life is a more complex struggle now. It is now valiant to be simple: a courageous thing to even want to be simple. It is a spiritual thing to comprehend what simplicity means
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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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Imitation is always insult--not flattery.
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The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
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Architectural features of true democratic ground-freedom would rise naturally from topography, which means that buildings would all take on the nature and character of the ground on which in endless variety they would stand and be component part.
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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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Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.
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Consider everything in the nature of a hanging fixture a weakness, and naked radiators an abomination.
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A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.
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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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Imitate nothing except principle.
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True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building, or a park. At its best it is an emphasis of structure, a realization in graceful terms of the nature of that which is ornamented
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Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.
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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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Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master's work of art. Individuality is sacred.
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I know we can't have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord.
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I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.
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A building is not just a place to be but a way to be.
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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. It is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use the word order.
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If the paintings are too large, cut them in half!
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