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Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.

Frank Lloyd Wright

An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Funny Man Philosophy Savage Thinking
I never design a building before I’ve seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Design Myself People
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
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Education Perfection Student
All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
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Human Material Value
I’ll bridge these hills with graceful arches
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Myself Nature
One war only breeds another.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

One Liner Oneself War
Philip Johnson is a highbrow. A highbrow is a man educated beyond his capacity. His house is a box of glass — not shelter. The meaning of the word shelter includes privacy.
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Beyond Education Man Praise Privacy
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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Beautiful Ignorance Life Live Myself Perspective Philosophy Yourself
A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn’t afterward.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Age Drink Fool Man
You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Achievement Inspirational Worth Yourself
Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Civilization Fall
Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Inspirational Nature
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
Limitation is always insult–not flattery.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Change Choice Honesty Life Myself

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