Frank lloyd wright
An idea is salvation by imagination.
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Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.
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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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Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
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Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
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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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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...
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Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.
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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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