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Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Country Fall
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
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
All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
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Human Material Value
Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Inspirational Nature
If it sells, it’s art.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Art One Liner
More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

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.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Accomplishment Beginning Ideal Myself Ourselves Thinking
A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advice his clients to plant vines.
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Advice Mistake Plant
Freedom lies within.
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Freedom Lie One Liner
Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Beautiful Human Man Material Worth
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Believe God Myself Nature
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
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

People Philosophy
The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you’re an atheist, pretend how God would do it.
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Atheist Creation God Thinking
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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