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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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We should have a system of economics that is structure that is organic tools. We do not have it. We are all hanging by our eyebrows from skyhooks economically, just as we are architecturally.
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All I learned from Eliel Saarinen was how to make out an expense account
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If you're going to have centralization, why not have it!
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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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Less is more only when more is too much.
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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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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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Imitate nothing except principle.
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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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Architectural features of true democratic ground-freedom would rise naturally from topography, which means that buildings would all take on the nature and character of the ground on which in endless variety they would stand and be component part.
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We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.
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Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it.
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One war only breeds another.
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Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
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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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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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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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The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas.
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You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.
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Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
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