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There is no true understanding of any art without some knowledge of its philosophy. Only then does its meaning come clear.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.
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Design Wrong
The best friend of earth of man is the tree.
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Friendship Man Tree
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
Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
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Material People Rich
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
The best thing to do is go as far out as you can get… what you regard as ‘too far’-and when others follow, as they will, move on.
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Action Best Move On Regard Yourself
The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.
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Greatness Human Limitation
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
One war only breeds another.
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One Liner Oneself War
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 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
The room within is the great fact about the building.
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Fact Greatness Room
Simplicity and Repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
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Art Quality Simplicity True Value
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
An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.
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Funny Man Philosophy Savage Thinking
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

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