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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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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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The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
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Building becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful, to put concordance, sympathy with nature, and all that into it. Then you have architecture.
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I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.
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Less is more only when more is too much.
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Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
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Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.
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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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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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The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
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Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.
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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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The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas.
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Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation
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Imitate nothing except principle.
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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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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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To know what to leave out and what to put in just where and just how, ah, that is to have been educated in knowledge of simplicity.
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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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Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
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