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The mission of an architect is to help people understand how to make life more beautiful, the world a better one for living in, and to give reason, rhyme, and meaning to life.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Building becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful, to put concordance, sympathy with nature, and all that into it. Then you have architecture.
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Beautiful Business Man Mindset 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
Good taste is not a substitute for knowledge.
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Goodness Knowledge One Liner Taste
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
The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.
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Greatness Human Limitation
Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
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Lose World
Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.
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Art Greatness Opportunity
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
Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
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Body God Nature See
One war only breeds another.
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One Liner Oneself War
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
Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.
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Beautiful Human Man Material Worth
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
I’ll bridge these hills with graceful arches
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Myself Nature
The truth is more important than the facts.
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Important Truth
Simplicity and Repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
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Art Quality Simplicity True Value
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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Education Perfection Student
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.
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Change Choice Honesty Life Myself
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
Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
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Material People Rich
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
The longer that I live the more beautiful life becomes.
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Beautiful Instagram Captions Life Live Myself
Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
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Children Myself
You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
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Achievement Inspirational Worth Yourself
All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
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Human Material Value
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

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