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They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Advice Mistake Plant
Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
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Lose World
A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn’t afterward.
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Age Drink Fool Man
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
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Beautiful Life Live Myself Philosophy
Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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Art Food Philosophy
Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
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Material People Rich
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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Education Perfection Student
Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
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Eyes Technology
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
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
Nature is my manifestation of God.
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God Nature Religious Spiritual
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
I never design a building before I’ve seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
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Design Myself People
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
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
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Life Luxury Necessary Willing
There is no true understanding of any art without some knowledge of its philosophy. Only then does its meaning come clear.
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Art Knowledge Philosophy True Understand

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