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A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advice his clients to plant vines.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you’re an atheist, pretend how God would do it.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Atheist Creation God Thinking
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
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
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Life Luxury Necessary Willing
The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.
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Design Wrong
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
More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.
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Beautiful Light Myself
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
Limitation is always insult–not flattery.
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Limitation Praise
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
Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
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Material People Rich
A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advice his clients to plant vines.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Advice Mistake Plant
The truth is more important than the facts.
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Important Truth
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 longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
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Beautiful Life Live Myself Philosophy
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
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
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People Philosophy

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