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The best thing to do is go as far out as you can get... what you regard as 'too far' - and when others follow, as they will, move on

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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The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
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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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We do not learn so much by our successes as we learn by failures - our own and others! Especially if we see the failures properly corrected.
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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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No house should ever be on any hill... It should be of the hill.
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Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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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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You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
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The sense of space within the reality of any building is a new concept wherever architecture is concerned. But it is essential ancient principle just the same and is not only necessary now but implied by the ideal of democracy itself.
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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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I'll bridge these hills with graceful arches
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Consider everything in the nature of a hanging fixture a weakness, and naked radiators an abomination.
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They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.
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Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.
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I know we can't have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord.
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We boast the highest standard of living when it's only the biggest.
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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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