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You will find Goodness and Truth everywhere you go. If you have to choose, choose Truth. For that is closest to Earth. Keep close to the Earth, in that lies strength. Simplicity of heart is just as necessary for an architect as for a farmer or a minister if the architect is going to build great buildings.

Frank Lloyd Wright

You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.
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Tool Yourself
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
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Life Luxury Necessary Willing
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
Give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.
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Happiness Life Luxury Necessary Need
Simplicity and Repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
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Art Quality Simplicity True Value
Nature is my manifestation of God.
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God Nature Religious Spiritual
A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advice his clients to plant vines.
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Advice Mistake Plant
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
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.
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Accomplishment Beginning Ideal Myself Ourselves Thinking
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
Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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Civilization Fall
The truth is more important than the facts.
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Important Truth
Now a work of art is a work of nature, but it is a work of human nature. It is a work of the mind: and it’s a work of the mind in circumstances for an occasion which, to which, for which, and which it may be supremely natural and simple and effective.
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Art Human Mindset Nature Simplicity
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
Freedom lies within.
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Freedom Lie One Liner
Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.
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Material Nature

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