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Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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
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
A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.
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Appearance Easy Growth Nature
Freedom lies within.
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Freedom Lie One Liner
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
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Life Luxury Necessary Willing
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
All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
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Human Material Value
An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.
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Funny Man Philosophy Savage Thinking
I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Choice Honesty Myself
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
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.
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Beginning Feeling Idea Ideas Nature Togetherness
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 Youth
The best thing to do is go as far out as you can get… what you regard as ‘too far’-and when others follow, as they will, move on.
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Action Best Move On Regard Yourself
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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Believe God Myself Nature
I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.
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Greatness Myself Nature Religious
There is no true understanding of any art without some knowledge of its philosophy. Only then does its meaning come clear.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Art Knowledge Philosophy True Understand

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