American - Architect | June 8, 1867 - April 9, 1959
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
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The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.
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The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.
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Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.
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I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.
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The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.
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All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.
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I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.
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