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The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Grow Up Old Yourself Youth
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
Simplicity and Repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
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Art Quality Simplicity True Value
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
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.
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Beautiful Help Life Live People Reason Understand World
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
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Failure Nature Yourself
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
Each material has its own message.
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Material One Liner Worth
Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
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Material People Rich
If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
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Beautiful Investment Life Yourself
They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.
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Country Fall
Give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.
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Happiness Life Luxury Necessary Need
Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation.
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Inspirational Nature
An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.
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Funny Man Philosophy Savage Thinking
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
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Animal Desire Home Regard
A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn’t afterward.
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Age Drink Fool Man
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
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
Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.
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Art Greatness Opportunity
Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Grow Up Old Youth
The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.
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Beautiful Goodness Hurt
No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.
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Happiness Home Live Nature Togetherness
Imitate nothing except principle.
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One Liner Principle
Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
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Children Earth Nature Sun
Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
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Eyes Technology
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
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

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