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Analysis, to Analyze
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Get the habit of analysis- analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
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Architecture
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All fine architectural values are human vales, else not valuable.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
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Oh Rat's
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Art
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Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
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Atheism
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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
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Beauty
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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.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
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City Life, Cities
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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.
-Frank Lloyd Wright, The Living City, pt. 1, Earth, 1958
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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
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Design
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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.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
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Hope
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The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
-Frank Lloyd Wright, Closing words of The Living City, pt. 5, Night is but a Shadow Cast by the Sun, 1958
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Humility
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Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
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Ideas
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An idea is salvation by imagination.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
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Intelligence
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I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
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Machines, Machinery
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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.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
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Mistakes
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The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
-Frank Lloyd Wright, "New York Times Magazine", October 4, 1953
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Opera
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I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
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Poetry
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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.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
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Technology
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If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
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Television
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TV -- chewing gum for the eyes.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
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Truth
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The truth is more important than the facts.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
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Youth
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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
-Frank Lloyd Wright
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Books by and about Frank Lloyd Wright