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Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.

Frank Lloyd Wright

I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Choice Honesty Myself
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
Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
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Children Earth Nature Sun
You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
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Achievement Inspirational Worth Yourself
Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.
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Beautiful Human Man Material Worth
A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advice his clients to plant vines.
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Advice Mistake Plant
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
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
You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.
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Tool Yourself
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
Nature is my manifestation of God.
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God Nature Religious Spiritual
The primitive ideals of centralization are now largely self-defeating. Human crucifixion by vertically on the now static checkerboard of the old city is pattern already in agony; yet for lack of any organic planning it is going on and on-not living, but rather hanging by its eyebrows from its nervous system.
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Defeat Human Ideal Live Planning
The truth is more important than the facts.
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Important Truth
Give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.
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Happiness Life Luxury Necessary Need
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
Imitate nothing except principle.
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One Liner Principle
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
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
Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
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Children Myself
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
The belief in a thing makes it happen.
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Belief Inspirational
If it sells, it’s art.
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Art One Liner
One war only breeds another.
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One Liner Oneself War
Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
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Body God Nature See
The measure of its nobility and its continuity is its depth of feeling and its sincerity. And if it has that quality, it stands.
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Feeling Philosophy Quality
The best friend of earth of man is the tree.
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Friendship Man Tree
A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.
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Feeling Himself Oneself

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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