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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
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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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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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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Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.
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Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master's work of art. Individuality is sacred.
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True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building, or a park. At its best it is an emphasis of structure, a realization in graceful terms of the nature of that which is ornamented
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Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.
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Less is more only when more is too much.
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