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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

Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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Art Food Philosophy
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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Education Perfection Student
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
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

Art Beautiful Expression Human Intellectual Life Live Strength Technology
Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
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Greatness Liberty Tolerance
The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.
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Best Friendship Man Material Respect Tree
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
Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
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Children Earth Nature Sun
They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.
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Country Fall
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
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
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
Less is more only when more is too much.
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Deep Minimalism One Liner Philosophy
Nature is my manifestation of God.
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God Nature Religious Spiritual

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