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The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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
Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.
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Art Greatness Opportunity
I don’t know whether you are a saint or a fool said my lawyer. I replied Is there a difference?
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Difference Fools Myself See
Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
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Children Myself
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
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People Philosophy
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
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
Limitation is always insult–not flattery.
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Limitation Praise
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
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
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 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
Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.
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Body God Nature See
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
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Failure Nature Yourself
The belief in a thing makes it happen.
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Belief Inspirational
More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.
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Beautiful Light Myself
All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
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Human Material Value
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
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
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
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
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
The truth is more important than the facts.
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Important Truth
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
As we work along our various ways, there takes shape within us, in some sort, an ideal – something we are to become – some work to be done. This, I think, is denied to very few, and we begin really to live only when the thrill of this ideality moves us in what we will to accomplish.
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Accomplishment Beginning Ideal Myself Ourselves Thinking
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

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