American - Architect | June 8, 1867 - April 9, 1959
'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
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The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.
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Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
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Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
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Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
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Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.
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Freedom is from within.
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Mechanization best serves mediocrity.
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No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.
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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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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
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