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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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A vital difference between the professional man and a man of business is that money making to the professional man should, by virtue of his assumption, be incidental to the businessman it is primary. Money has its limitations while it may buy quantity, there is something beyond it and that is quality.
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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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To know what to leave out and what to put in just where and just how, ah, that is to have been educated in knowledge of simplicity.
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Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
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The tall modern office building is the machine pure and simple...the engine, the motor and the battleship the works of the century.
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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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A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
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The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.
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No house should ever be on any hill... It should be of the hill.
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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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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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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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Television is bubble-gum for the mind.
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I'm against war. Always have been, always will be. And everything connected with it, is anathema to me. I have never considered it necessary.
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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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You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
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Imitation is always insult--not flattery.
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Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?
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San Francisco is the only city I can think of that can survive all the things you people are doing to it and still look beautiful.
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