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If the paintings are too large, cut them in half!

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Frank Lloyd Wright
Age: 92 †
Born: 1867
Born: June 8
Died: 1959
Died: September 9
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We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.
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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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I know we can't have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord.
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The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas.
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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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Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.
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