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I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.
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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To me, young has no meaning. It's something you can do nothing about, nothing at all. But youth is a quality. And if you have it, you never lose it.
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Entering into the spirit of this interior, you will discover the best possible atmosphere in which to show fine paintings or listen to music. It is this atmosphere that seems to me most lacking in our art galleries, museums, music halls and theaters.
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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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The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas.
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Architecture is for the young. If our teenagers don't get architecture - if they are not inspired, (then) we won't have the architecture that we must have if this country is going to be beautiful.
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Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation
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Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.
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Architecture isman'sgreat sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as its source because great art isgreat life.
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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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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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More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.
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A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.
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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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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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'Think in simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole to its parts in simplest terms, getting back to first principles.
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The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
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Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.
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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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Taste is a matter of ignorance. If you know what you are tasting, you don't have to taste.
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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
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