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Imitation is always insult--not flattery.
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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Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
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Entering into the spirit of this interior, you will discover the best possible atmosphere in which to show fine paintings or listen to music. It is this atmosphere that seems to me most lacking in our art galleries, museums, music halls and theaters.
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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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Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
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The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.
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No house should ever be on any hill... It should be of the hill.
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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 mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
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I know we can't have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord.
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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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Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
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Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation
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I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.
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Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about 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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Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.
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Less is more only when more is too much.
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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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Humanity to me is not a mob. A mob is a degeneration of humanity. A mob is humanity going the wrong way.
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