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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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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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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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San Francisco is the only city I can think of that can survive all the things you people are doing to it and still look beautiful.
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Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
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I'll bridge these hills with graceful arches
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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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Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
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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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Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends could only read the title. - Virginia Woolf, from Jacob's Room Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
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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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If you're going to have centralization, why not have it!
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Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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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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Is there anything more anti-American than McCarthyism?
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Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
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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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The sense of space within the reality of any building is a new concept wherever architecture is concerned. But it is essential ancient principle just the same and is not only necessary now but implied by the ideal of democracy itself.
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From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn't fastened down slides into Southern California.
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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.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Television is bubble-gum for the mind.
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