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Clear out 800,000 people and preserve it as a museum piece.
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The-Shadow-of-the-Wall–Primitive Instincts Still Alive
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As we live and as we are, Simplicity - with a capital "S" - is difficult to comprehend nowadays. We are no longer truly simple. We no longer live in simple terms or places. Life is a more complex struggle now. It is now valiant to be simple: a courageous thing to even want to be simple. It is a spiritual thing to comprehend what simplicity means.
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Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
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Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
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We should have a system of economics that is structure that is organic tools. We do not have it. We are all hanging by our eyebrows from skyhooks economically, just as we are architecturally.
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New York is the biggest mouth in the world. It appears to be prime example of the herd instinct, leading the universal urban conspiracy to beguile man from his birthright (the good ground), to hang him by his eyebrows from skyhooks above hard pavement, to crucify him, sell him, or be sold by him.
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The necessities were going by default to save the luxuries until I hardly knew which were necessities and which luxuries.
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Give me the luxuries in life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
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Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
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I'm no teacher. Never wanted to teach and don't believe in teaching an art. Science yes, business of course.. but an art cannot be taught. You can only inculcate it, you can be an exemplar, you can create an atmosphere in which it can grow. Well I suppose I, being an exemplar, could be called a teacher, in spite of myself. So go ahead, call me a teacher.
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The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of the world and remember, it will be a poet, not a scientist.
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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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Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.
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I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city.
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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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Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
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Science can give us only the tools in the box, these mechanical miracles that it has already given us. But of what use to us are miraculous tools until we have mastered the humane, cultural use of them? We do not want to live in a world where the machine has mastered the man; we want to live in a world where man has mastered the machine.
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If you tilt the whole country sideways, Los Angeles is the place where everything will fall.
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So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal.
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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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Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
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If you turned the country on its side, everything loose would fall into Southern California.
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A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.
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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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Frank Lloyd Wright
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Born:
June 8, 1867
Died:
April 9, 1959
(aged 91)
Bio:
Frank Lloyd Wright was an American architect, interior designer, writer, and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures, 532 of which were completed.
Known for:
Fallingwater
Taliesin
Robie House
Taliesin West
Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio
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