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The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas.
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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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'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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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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I do not believe in adding enrichment merely for the sake of enrichment. Unless it adds clearness to the enunciation of the theme, it is undesirable, for it is very little understood.
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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.
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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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Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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Building becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful, to put concordance, sympathy with nature, and all that into it. Then you have architecture.
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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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Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
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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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I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.
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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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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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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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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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New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
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Humanity to me is not a mob. A mob is a degeneration of humanity. A mob is humanity going the wrong way.
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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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