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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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FLW
Flattery
Imitation
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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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Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
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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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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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Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
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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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We boast the highest standard of living when it's only the biggest.
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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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The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
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A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.
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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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Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.
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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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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 go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.
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