Quotes by Frank Lloyd Wright

"Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed."

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"The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization."

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"The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty."

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"Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral."

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"Space is the breath of art."

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"The space within becomes the reality of the building."

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"Freedom is from within."

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"TV is chewing gum for the eyes."

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"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."

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"Less is only more where more is no good."

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"The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope."

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"An idea is salvation by imagination."

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"Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you."

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"Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities."

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"A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it."

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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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"If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger."

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"Mechanization best serves mediocrity."

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"The truth is more important than the facts."

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"Television is chewing gum for the eyes."

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