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I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.
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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Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use the word order.
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Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies you can't nail them to a wall.
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You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
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Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
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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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The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
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Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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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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If the paintings are too large, cut them in half!
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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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Imitation is always insult--not flattery.
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