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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

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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Education Perfection Student
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 only thing wrong with architecture is architects.
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Design Wrong
The truth is more important than the facts.
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Important Truth
The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.
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Greatness Human Limitation
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 room within is the great fact about the building.
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Fact Greatness Room
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
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
Space is the breath of art.
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Art Breathe Space
I never design a building before I’ve seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
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Design Myself People
Limitation is always insult–not flattery.
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Limitation Praise
The longer that I live the more beautiful life becomes.
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Beautiful Instagram Captions Life Live Myself
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
I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.
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Choice Honesty Myself

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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