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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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Consider everything in the nature of a hanging fixture a weakness, and naked radiators an abomination.
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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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You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
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I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.
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The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of the world and remember, it will be a poet, not a scientist.
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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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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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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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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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Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
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One war only breeds another.
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Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
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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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Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
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