Frank Lloyd Wright
American architect
Lived from: 1867 - 1959
Born: 8 june 1867 Died: 9 april 1959
Quotes 21 till 40 of 48.
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities
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Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes
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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature
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I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it
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I feel coming on a strange disease - humility
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I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist's hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion.
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I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.
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If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
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Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.
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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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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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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
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Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art
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Space is the breath of art.
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Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you
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Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
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The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind
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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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The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
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The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
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