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The room within is the great fact about the building.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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
Each material has its own message.
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Material One Liner Worth
Early in my career, I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility… I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I’ve never been sorry.
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Career Choice Honesty Myself Regret
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 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
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
Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
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Eyes Technology
Freedom lies within.
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Freedom Lie One Liner
Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.
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Body God Nature See
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
Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.
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Beautiful Human Man Material Worth
The measure of a man’s culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.
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Gratitude Man Ourselves Philosophy
The best friend of earth of man is the tree.
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Friendship Man Tree
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.
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Change Choice Honesty Life Myself
I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.
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Choice Honesty Myself
You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.
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Tool Yourself
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
Philip Johnson is a highbrow. A highbrow is a man educated beyond his capacity. His house is a box of glass — not shelter. The meaning of the word shelter includes privacy.
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Beyond Education Man Praise Privacy
The truth is more important than the facts.
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Important Truth
Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.
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Greatness Heart Love Virtue
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
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Animal Desire Home Regard
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
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Believe Hope Inspirational Philosophy Yourself
The belief in a thing makes it happen.
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Belief Inspirational
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
Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can’t nail them to a wall.
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Death Food Wall
Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.
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Material Nature
The room within is the great fact about the building.
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Fact Greatness Room

The room within is the great fact about the building.

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