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All I learned from Eliel Saarinen was how to make out an expense account
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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Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
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Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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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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Now, of course, architecture is a blind spot of our life in America today. How many millions of students go to the university to be educated? They come away conditioned, not enlightened, and they know nothing of architecture, although they have a department somewhere around -- probably in the basement.
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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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Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
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I voted for Stevenson as opposed to Eisenhower because I thought he would make a good president, but against my conscience because I thought that he was too good for the job.
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Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
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The thing always happens that you really believe in and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
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Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
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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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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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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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