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The mission of an architect is to help people understand how to make life more beautiful, the world a better one for living in, and to give reason, rhyme, and meaning to life.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The primitive ideals of centralization are now largely self-defeating. Human crucifixion by vertically on the now static checkerboard of the old city is pattern already in agony; yet for lack of any organic planning it is going on and on-not living, but rather hanging by its eyebrows from its nervous system.
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Defeat Human Ideal Live Planning
Now a work of art is a work of nature, but it is a work of human nature. It is a work of the mind: and it’s a work of the mind in circumstances for an occasion which, to which, for which, and which it may be supremely natural and simple and effective.
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Art Human Mindset Nature Simplicity
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
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Art Civilization Mom Soul
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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Creation Friendship Ourselves Philosophy
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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Art Beautiful Expression Human Intellectual Life Live Strength Technology
A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.
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Human Inspirational Spirit
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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Education Perfection Student
The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you’re an atheist, pretend how God would do it.
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Atheist Creation God Thinking
Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
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Greatness Liberty Tolerance
I’ll bridge these hills with graceful arches
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Myself Nature
Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation.
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Inspirational Nature
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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Appearance Easy Growth Nature
A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advice his clients to plant vines.
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Advice Mistake Plant
You will find Goodness and Truth everywhere you go. If you have to choose, choose Truth. For that is closest to Earth. Keep close to the Earth, in that lies strength. Simplicity of heart is just as necessary for an architect as for a farmer or a minister if the architect is going to build great buildings.
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Goodness Lie Simplicity Strength Truth Yourself
An idea is salvation by imagination.
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Ideas Imagination
The best friend of earth of man is the tree.
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Friendship Man Tree

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