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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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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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An idea is salvation by imagination.
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I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist's hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion.
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Consider everything in the nature of a hanging fixture a weakness, and naked radiators an abomination.
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The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.
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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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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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'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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Science can give us only the tools in the box, these mechanical miracles that it has already given us. But of what use to us are miraculous tools until we have mastered the humane, cultural use of them? We do not want to live in a world where the machine has mastered the man we want to live in a world where man has mastered the machine.
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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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I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
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Imitate nothing except principle.
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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 insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas.
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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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More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.
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A vital difference between the professional man and a man of business is that money making to the professional man should, by virtue of his assumption, be incidental to the businessman it is primary. Money has its limitations while it may buy quantity, there is something beyond it and that is quality.
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The truth is more important than the facts.
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Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
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A building is not just a place to be but a way to be.
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