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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

The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.
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Design Wrong
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 best friend of earth of man is the tree.
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Friendship Man Tree
Give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.
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Happiness Life Luxury Necessary Need
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
Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.
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Government Result
The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
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Beautiful Ignorance Life Live Myself Perspective Philosophy Yourself
Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
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Greatness Liberty Tolerance
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
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
They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.
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Country Fall
If it sells, it’s art.
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Art One Liner
A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.
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Feeling Himself Oneself
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 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
Each material has its own message.
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Material One Liner Worth

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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