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"40 Frank Lloyd Quotes & Sayings

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Born: June 8, 1867 Died: April 9, 1959 | Architect |

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.

Ignore Beauty Life Invest
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Less is only more where more is no good.
Good Less More Only
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There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
Common More Nothing Sense
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

Give Give Me Life Luxuries
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Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

Arrogance Between Change Choose
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An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

Architect Bar Board Drafting
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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.

Architecture Beautiful Better Chicago
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The truth is more important than the facts.
Facts Important More Than
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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Art Philosophy Sake For
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Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

Angeles Everything Land Loose
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The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.

Feature Heart Mind Functioning
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The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

Beautiful Beautiful Life Becomes Life
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Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.

Always Direct Individual Internationalism
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Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

Close Fail Love Nature
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Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

Building Day Domain Every
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The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

Architecture Art Civilization Mother
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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.

Build Buildings Built Could
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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.

Bred Buildings Character Environment
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Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

Any Art Measure Qualities
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Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.

Great Man Masterpiece Much
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Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

Age Architect Day Every
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The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.

Ahead Architect Call He
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The space within becomes the reality of the building.

Becomes Building Reality Space
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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.

America Call Democracy Else
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I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.

Believe Capitalist I Believe Only
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Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.

Bureaucrats Buried Dead Like
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Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

Beautiful Chicago City Eventually
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'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

Back First Getting Master
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Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.

Analysis Become Enable Get
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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.

Afterwards Age Before Drinks
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TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

Chewing Chewing Gum Eyes Gum
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God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

Been Body Call Ever
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The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

Advise Architect As Far As Build
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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.

Architect Brain Cultivated Enriched
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All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

Architectural Else Fine Human
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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.

Architect Beauty Carefully Comfort
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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Circumstances Matter Quality Youth
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A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

Advise Architect Bury Clients
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The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

Divides Ever Hope Lies
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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.

Any Big Big City City
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