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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.
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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Space. The continual becoming: invisible fountain from which all rhythms flow and to which they must pass. Beyond time or infinity
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Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends could only read the title. - Virginia Woolf, from Jacob's Room Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
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You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.
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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 present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
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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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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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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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When anyone becomes an authority, that is the end of him as far as development is concerned.
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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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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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