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Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Beginning Feeling Idea Ideas Nature Togetherness
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
An idea is salvation by imagination.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Ideas Imagination
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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Defeat Human Ideal Live Planning
Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
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Eyes Technology
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
Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Grow Up Old Yourself Youth
You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.
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Tool Yourself
Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
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Children Myself
Imitate nothing except principle.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

One Liner Principle
We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Creation Friendship Ourselves Philosophy
I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Greatness Myself Nature Religious
Give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.
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Happiness Life Luxury Necessary Need
Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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Civilization Fall
Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.
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Government Result
The best friend of earth of man is the tree.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Friendship Man Tree

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