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The Machine is Intellect mastering the drudgery of the earth that the plastic art may live; that the margin of leisure and strength by which man’s life upon earth can be made beautiful, may immeasurably widen; its function ultimately to emancipate human expression!

Frank Lloyd Wright

Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.
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Body God Nature See
They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.
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Country Fall
We have no longer an outside and an inside as two separate things. Now the outside may come inside and the inside may and does go outside. They are of each other. Form and function thus become one in design and execution if the nature of materials and method and purpose are all in unison.
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Design Each Other Material Nature Oneself Philosophy Purpose
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.
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Action Best Move On Regard Yourself
You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.
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Tool Yourself
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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Beautiful Business Man Mindset Nature
Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.
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Beautiful Human Man Material Worth
An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.
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Business Tool
Youth is not an age thing. It’s a quality. Once you’ve had it, you never lose it.
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Age Lose Perspective Quality Youth
I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.
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Danger Fool Hands Myself Start Weapon
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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Education Perfection Student
Give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.
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Happiness Life Luxury Necessary Need
An idea is inevitably a coordination. It is a coming together of something that is separate or disorganized or incomplete. With an idea you begin to feel into the nature of that incompleteness.
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Beginning Feeling Idea Ideas Nature Togetherness
Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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Art Food Philosophy
Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
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Grow Up Old Yourself Youth
A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advice his clients to plant vines.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Advice Mistake Plant

The Machine is Intellect mastering the drudgery of the earth that the plastic art may live; that the margin of leisure and strength by which man’s life upon earth can be made beautiful, may immeasurably widen; its function ultimately to emancipate human expression!

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The Machine is Intellect mastering the drudgery of the earth that the plastic art may live; that the margin of leisure and strength by which man’s life upon earth can be made beautiful, may immeasurably widen; its function ultimately to emancipate human expression!

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